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 opportunity to interview Tim Joint, Commercial Manager for Aculab. Aculab provides IP and media processing boards, software and gateways to the global communications market. Aculab partners with VoIPon to distribute the ApplianX brand of VoIP gateways in the UK/WorldWide. Listen to the podcast or read the transcription below. [VoIPon]  I’m aware [...]

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 [...]

Recently, we had the opportunity to chat with Dmitry Baev, the Director of Product Development of Industry Dynamics and makers of VoiceGear—an integrated Skype gateway that is entirely plug-and-play and supports a variety of analog, digital, SIP, and Hybrid PBX systems. Listen to the podcast or read a transcription of our call below. [VoIPon] Please [...]

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 [...]

Recently, we had the opportunity to speak with Jim Rhodes, president of Rhino Equipment. Rhino Equipment Corp. is a USA based, global telecommunications equipment hardware supplier, whose mission is to provide customers with the most reliable, lowest-priced telecommunications equipment that can be trusted to work day in and day out. Each year the company strives [...]

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 [...]