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Recently, we had the chance to speak with David Rowe from the Free Telephony Project, based out of Australia, and Elektra Aichele from Freifunk.net Wireless Community Network in Germany. Elektra and David came together about eight months ago to work on the Village Telco Project, a project to give low cost, Wi-Fi based telephony to people [...]

Howler Technologies has expanded its Screamer transcoding product line. Today it launched a 64-bit version of its highly successful Screamer G.729 transcoder card that supports up to 425 simultaneous calls. VoIP network operators and large enterprises with IP call centres that support hundreds of agents can benefit from this high capacity G.729 transcoding solution, which [...]

Grandstream Networks today announced its Grandstream GXV3611_HD (720P high definition) and Grandstream GXV3611_LL (low light) progressive scan CMOS fixed dome IP surveillance cameras. Retail stores, restaurants, campuses, casinos, apartment buildings and business offices looking for a cost-effective, open standard surveillance solution can easily implement these two new indoor cameras for 24×7 security protection of people [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

As recently reported in Comms Business, VegaStream is bringing its new line of VoIP gateways with integrated ADSL modems to the UK, effective 1st January 2010, when the product will be shipping. “I am very excited by these new products’ commented Steve Davis, VP Sales and Marketing at VegaStream. ‘We have been testing them extensively [...]