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Asterisk and FreeSWITCH

This week I'm using some link bait which discusses a few of the differences between Asterisk and FreeSWITCH. David Greenfield wrote a short blog post discussing one particular case study where FreeSWITC… Continue

Posted on August 11th, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments (Add)

A couple AsteriskNOW tutorial chapters

I just got some tutorial chapters from PackT Publishing’s AsteriskNOW book by Nir Simionovich. Although most OS-VoIP readers aren’t developers, and the ones who are probably rarely use AsteriskNOW, I figured there’s no… Continue

Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments (Add)

Premise based Open Source IP PBX or hosted VoIP?

This is a question I hear constantly and the answer typically relies on three things - cost, business size, and required functionality. Most small-mid sized businesses exploring the move to a new phone system will consider the ups and downs between purchasing a premise based IP PBX or a hosted VoIP solution. These days I think purchasing an old TDM phone system instead of an IP based system is about as smart as buying a VHS… Continue

Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 3:41pm — No Comments (Add)

74 Open Source VoIP Apps

At some point I’ll be writing a full article on the squillions of Open Source VoIP apps out there but until I find the time to do so, I want to share with you all this list called 74 Open Source VoIP Apps & Resource. Here at OS-VoIP, one of the things I’m trying to do is help individuals differentiate between Open Source VoIP apps that are ready for the enterprise and which ones are not. A lot… Continue

Posted on July 7th, 2008 at 1:05pm — No Comments (Add)

Exactly 1 month left to submit for Digium Innovator Award

The second annual Digium Innovation Award is coming up folks! The deadline for your submissions is August 1st so don’t forget. This award was created last year to showcase all the “innovative” applications for which Asterisk can be used. Those eligible for the award are all Digium|Asterisk customers and partners world-wide with solutions that are live or in production. This is nice and broad so if you’re working on something that warrants an “innovative”or “never done before” title, then I enco… Continue

Posted on July 1st, 2008 at 3:51pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 8:52pm on June 16th, 2008, sil said…: Aaron, just seeing your comment now (where do I work...) shoot me an email or send me a message via LinkedIn, I will disclose where i work. I dislike doing so publicly. Let's put it like this... Right now, there are about 60 "VoIP Providers" whose infrastructure I provide and I'm sure you would have heard of many of them. As for the monkey ;) He makes laughing sounds and moves his arms and hands when you squeeze his foot. He keeps me amused during the day and when I have to do videoconferencing... I kid you not he subs for me while I speak....

As for the QoS comment ;) I find QoS highly overrated and have done accurate measurements with QoS enabled and disabled for VoIP. Not all that. One of my coworkers is a PhD former IBM'er. He wrote a program that (via an algorithm) can tell you what a spec of dust is in the sky (bird, plane, etc). When I say "Jesus christ..." Doesn't begin to describe him. He's an insanely smart gentleman and his brain is off the meter. I always "lab things up", QoS, security, you name it, I can lab it. QoS is not the answer with VoIP. It helps, ever so slightly its not even noticeable most times.

At 3:22am on June 13th, 2008, Himanshu Panchal said…: Thanks for the welcome. I have sent you a mail on aaron.rosenthal@specialai.com. please have a look and let me know what you think. It can be used as a good way to promote this site.

At 4:16pm on June 6th, 2008, Eric Erickson said…: Ahoy Aaron ... good to be aboard!

At 7:18pm on June 2nd, 2008, Andrew Yates said…: Hi, Aaron. Thanks for the welcome.

At 5:19pm on June 2nd, 2008, sil said…: Why We Don't Need QOS: Trains, Cars, and Internet Quality of Service
http://www.bricklin.com/qos.htm

At 1:25pm on June 2nd, 2008, jong Lee said…: Hi, Aaron. thanks for warm welcome!

At 11:32am on May 30th, 2008, Mike said…: Hey Aaron -

I know you posted a comment on my page - and I would have approved it and such but I was (and am) accessing this site from a crippled Windows XP machine (is there any other kind of windows machine apart from cippled) and javascript just kept erroring, and the corporate desktop here is locked down sooo tight it's untrue. I'll try to get up to speed with comment approvals when I get back tonight - and all weekend... I'm doin' Asterisk!

At 7:18am on May 30th, 2008, J. Oquendo said…: Aaron, make sure you post this site on Voip-info somewhere. It will eventually take flight. If you post to Asterisk-dev, users mailing list, you may also want to include a link on your signature somewhere.

At 11:43am on May 29th, 2008, Patrick Camelin said…: Thanks Aaron for the welcome.

At 2:29pm on May 28th, 2008, Bill Hoffman said…: Thanks for the welcome. Columbus is doing fine. I work for a transportation company at Rickenbacker airport. I have a small Asterisk setup here that I am testing. The plan is to replace existing 20 year old Merlin Legend and Partner switches in our outbase offices, Chicago and New York. I am taking the Asterisk Boot Camp training in June. So hopefully I'll have a clue on how to setup a small business Asterisk PBX.