Recently, VoIPon attended a presentation at the Toronto Asterisk User Group, where renowned author, Jim Van Meggelen, of the O’Reilly Asterisk book “The Future of Telephony” fame, shared a little known tip to enable high availability systems on Sangoma T1/E1 PRI cards, using Sangoma’s Wanpipe and Linux Heartbeat. However, he is quick to remind the [...]

Yealink, a leading manufacturer of IP voice and video phones, has released a new firmware update for its award winning series of IP phones—SIP-T2x. This enterprise HD IP phone series encompasses high-performance and affordable SIP telephones that help businesses leverage the increasing benefits of VoIP telephone systems. According to the company, the phones provide high [...]

Today is a day for transcoding—Sangoma just officially announced its new D100 Card. The D100 supports up to 480 Channels of Premium-Quality Voice Transcoding per card and is designed to create efficiency, cost Savings and top audio quality in open source telephony applications. Octasic also announced a similar card this afternoon, marketed toward larger systems. [...]

Today, Octasic announced the immediate availability of its new range of high density video transcoding cards, the TXP1000. Octasic has designed the TXP1000 PCI Express (PCIe) plug-in cards to directly offload the host CPUs for high channel density video and voice transcoding applications. The TXP1000 cards use Octasic’s award winning Vocallo MGW (DSPs) Digital Signal [...]

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 [...]

Last week, VoIPon attended CeBIT and had the opportunity to interview a selection of industry leaders to learn about new products and any product developments they were launching at the show. VoIPon Interviews Sangoma @ CeBIT 2010 VoIPon: Hello, My name is Alexis Argent, I’m the sales manager for VoIPon Solutions in the United Kindgom [...]

3CX and Beronet have recently announced a strategic partnership to provide a complete IP PBX solution. Joining us today is Nick Galea CEO of 3CX and Gürsel Kücük, one of the founders of Beronet. Below is a summary of our call. VoIPon: Nick, last time we spoke, you mentioned you’d like to explain to us [...]

Last week at TMCnet’s ITExpo, Redfone Communications providers of next-generation open source telephony solutions to small to enterprise-size businesses and makers of the foneBRIDGE product line, announced that they were integrating TeleSoft’s TsLinkNet IP-PBX VoIP Gateway Solution into their Telecom Offerings. We took the opportunity to interview Mark Warren, the company’s president about their latest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]