Yealink Unleashes Wireless Headset Control EHS36 Specialist VoIP manufacturer Yealink has launched an adaptor which enables functions on its popular T26P and T28P IP telephones to be controlled via Jabra and Plantronics wireless headsets. Approved for use by both of the market-dominating headset brands the new EHS36 offers two interfaces, enabling connection to Jabra units [...]

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 [...]

Minor variances between vendor’s SIP implementations can disable enterprise VoIP systems. But by choosing protocol mediation such as that provided by Patton’s new SmartNode Session Border Controller, the SN5200, companies can ensure interoperability among all SIP “flavours” for fast, easy SIP trunking setup. The SmartNode Session Border Controller provides any-to-any protocol mediation for secure connectivity [...]

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 [...]

Last Evening, VoIPon attended the ITSPA Awards celebration. The event was well attended by leading companies in our industry, such as Snom, Digium and Polycom, and all in all over one hundred people including parliamentarians, civil servants and industry representatives attended. The awards were presented in five categories, representing different areas of the VoIP and [...]

Last Friday we had the opportunity to speak with Mark Trowbridge, CEO of Foncordiax, an interesting company that seems ready to take the retail world by storm with its new, off the shelf plug n’ go range of appliances that pretty much anyone can sell and any customer can setup and get going without a whole [...]