Archive for January, 2010

TMC Labs Reviews Positron’s V114 PCI Card: Grade A- January 28, 2010 No Comments

Tom Keating recently reviewed Positron’s V-114 Asterisk on a Card and the product fared very well in their assessment. The Highlights Installation: 5 Documentation: 4 Features: 4.5 Overall: A- What is the V-114? – 4 ports of Analog FXO for connecting trunk lines – Asterisk Integrated on the card – 1 port of FXS for [...]

VoIPon Sponsors Project Red Sands Through Red Sands Radio No Comments

Designed and built during the 1940s, the Redsand Towers (also known as The Maunsell Towers) protected British shipping lanes from mines and attacks during the Second World War. It basically stood abandoned, since that time, short of a brief stint as a pirate radio station in the 1960s. Up until 2003, no serious consideration had [...]

Xorcom Announces High Density 16-Port E1/T1 Astribank January 25, 2010 1 Comment

Xorcom has developed a high density version of its award-winning Astribank™ telephony interfaces solution for Asterisk-based PBX.  Specifically designed to meet the requirements of Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC) and other VoIP Providers, this compact 19″ 1U chassis supports up to 480 digital telephony channels. Service providers and other implementations requiring a large number of [...]

Howler Screamer, Cell Technology = The World’s Fastest Transcoding Card? An Interview with Jay Fenton, CTO of Howler Technologies January 21, 2010 2 Comments

This week, Howler Technologies officially announced its ground breaking type of transcoding card—the Howler Screamer. The card works with your existing IP PBX software, such as Asterisk and FreeSwitch and is designed to businesses a huge advantage in terms of cost and performance because of the cell technology it uses. Below is the summary transcription [...]

PIKA Adds GSM Connectivity to WARP Appliance January 20, 2010 No Comments

Pika Technologies has announced its GSM Module for its Pika WARP Appliance. This will provide Asterisk and FreePBX developers with wireless connectivity options using the GSM standard. According to the company in a recent news release, the GSM Standard is the most ubiquitous wireless standard in the world, with the number of GSM connected devices [...]

Vegastream VoIP Gateways & the Future of Telephony: An Interview with Steve Davis, EVP Sales & Marketing January 13, 2010 No Comments

Recently, we interviewed Steve Davis, Vegastream’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing to learn a little more about the company, what its new range of VoIP gateways with integrated ADSL modems mean for our customers and to get Vegastream’s view on the future of the telephony market. Below is a summary of our call. [...]

Xorcom to Announce Product Enhancements at IT EXPO January 12, 2010 No Comments

Next Week in Miami, FL, USA, Xorcom will be exhibiting at Asterisk World at the IT EXPO event. According to a recent Xorcom newsletter, the company is planning to reveal new product enhancements that will make the Xorcom line of products more reliable and robust for enterprise users. For those attending the event, a free [...]