In this day of escalating travel costs, increased pressure to “go green” and virtual staffing, you may have thought about finding a reliable, quality video conferencing system.
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Video Conferencing – 10 Benefits For North Bay Small Businesses
As Fresher’s week begins at universities across the country, few students will have much more on their mind other than how much booze they can down in 24 hours.
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Six of the best … iPhone apps for university students
Posted by Website Introductions: A new member of Comcerto family of VoIP system-on-chips (SoCs)was introduced that will work best in the networking environment. Comcerto 300xv works in a broader area.
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Mindspeed Introduced Comcerto 300xv that Works Best in the Networking Environment
Posted by Website Introductions: VoIP technologies are being embraced by the world these day because of it’s promising services that could compete and even surpass traditional phone lines, with its cost and bundled services. However there are still places which are not yet ready or does not want the technology.
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Illegal VoIP Operator in Nepal Arrested
Making telephone calls over the Internet is an exciting and cost saving technology that is taking a position to completely change voice communications forever. VOIP, or voice over Internet protocol, is not a brand new technology, having been around the business world for several years. But in the last few years, it has begun to catch on with consumers as a way to combine all forms of their communications in their homes (voice, email, etc.) and beat the high fees that long distance companies on their customers
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Voip Phone Service Provider
Disclaimer: The following instructions are for experimenters and tinkerers, and may or may not be correct and complete. Use them at your own risk , or don’t use them at all. Just because something worked on my system doesn’t mean it will work on yours, so if you don’t have confidence in your ability to recover from any problems that may arise, don’t do this! Image via CrunchBase If you have an Asterisk installation and are trying to get something related to Google Talk (do not confuse with Google Voice) to work, or, perhaps you are trying to send Jabber-based notifications from your Asterisk box and it’s not working, it might be because of a couple of missing modules. The specific problem may be that the modules res_jabber.so and/or chan_gtalk.so are missing in your Asterisk installation. These are normally found in the directory /usr/lib/asterisk/modules and if they aren’t there, it’s probably because of missing dependencies that existed when you (or the installation script you used) built Asterisk. One way to tell is to go to your Asterisk source directory (typically something like /usr/src/asterisk-1.x.xx where the x’s are replaced by your version number) and run make menuselect , then arrow down to Channel Drivers (to see chan_gtalk) and then to Resource Modules (to see res_jabber). If either have an XXX in front, that means there is a missing dependency and if you move the selection bar over the file (use the tab key and arrow keys to move around) and then look at the bottom of the screen, it should tell you what’s missing, or what the problem is. Note that if you want these modules to become available you’ll need to recompile Asterisk so if you don’t know how to do that, you may want to read up on that first. I used to recommend the page How to upgrade Asterisk on the FreePBX site, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth (basically it skips a couple of steps), however I’m sure you can find current instructions using Google (anyone know of a better page offhand?) The fix is to first install any missing modules – in my case, one thing it complained about was gnutls and it turned out that to fix the problem (under CentOS) I had to do this: yum install gnutls-devel gnutls-utils (If it complains about missing repositories, you can exclude them using the –disablerepo= repo_name flag) Also, if you are going to do this, you may as well get the latest version of iksemel (used by both modules) as it has a few bug fixes, and may need to be recompiled anyway (according to this post on the PBX in a Flash forum , “it’s a dependency for res_jabber.so, which in turn is a dependency for chan_gtalk.so”). Go to http://code.google.com/p/iksemel/downloads/list to find it, save the latest version to your Asterisk server, unzip it to an appropriate location (such as /usr/src/iksemel-1.x) and then do this from the iksemel source directory (where you unzipped the downloaded file): ./configure –prefix=/usr –with-libgnutls-prefix=/usr –with-gnutls (For the moment don’t worry if it spits out a warning, as long as the configuration is successful) Then do the typical installation: make make check make install If that goes well, the next thing to do is go back to your Asterisk source directory, and do the following: ./configure make menuselect At this point res_jabber.so and chan_gtalk.so should no longer have the XXX in front of them, and will likely be already selected “ [*] ” – if not, select the two modules.
Just came across these on the Team Forrest blog : Perl Script for Asterisk Failed Peer Registrations Automatically Block Failed SIP Peer Registrations The first one is script that goes through your messages log and tell you how many failed connection attempts have been logged from each IP address , so it’s easy to see if you are under attack from a particular address. I will just note that depending on your installation, you may need to change the path in line 6 from “/var/log/asterisk/$ARGV[0]” to “/var/log/$ARGV[0]” (depending on which directory contains your messages logs).
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Perl scripts to notify, block failed SIP peer registrations in Asterisk
Announce the latest investigation report claims, from 2005 to 2009 according to the market survey organization In-Stat Company, in Asian voip service market including Japan, it is expected the income from sales will increase by 1 billion dollars to rise to every year to increase over 10 billion dollars from every year. According to survey and study researcher of company Singapore VictorLiu, show in will it be the end 2004, Asian income from sales that VoIP serve has already reach 5,500 million dollars, the local VoIP calling line has already reached 8,700,000. Through providing the mobile phone or family’s expenses of favourable price for user, long distance communication is called out and transferred to IP network progressively, voip service provider of Asia has already been in leading position in the whole world
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Asia VoIP serves and already reaches 5,500 million dollars the most flourishingly
You might think no one uses phone cards anymore with all the talk of the online services. I thought you’d find it interesting to know that at ZapTel we are processing as many minutes of calling this year as we did last year. We process hundreds of new phone card sales and recharges every day. While there is certainly a place for using your computer to place and receive calls, and it can be free, the international phone card calling services have proven to have staying power for several reasons. 1. Make and receive calls from any phone, anywhere, anytime. 2. Neither caller has to have access to a broadband connection or a computer to be part of the call.
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GoogleTalk, Skype and Phone cards
Yesterday, I called a colleague of mine demanding for a three hours overdue status update on a project I had tasked her last week. Under the impression that we were connected on Facebook, she had been providing the status updates on the social networking site and assumed that I was reading them.
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How will Email, VoIP, Social media effect the Telephone thing?
If you are running any version of FreePBX earlier than 2.8, here’s another reason you may wish to hold off on installing the latest version. As described in their bug tracker, the problem is that “ Dialed Number Manipulation Rules no longer allow ‘w’ in prepend “ Since upgrading to 2.8 from 2.7, the Dialed Number Manipulation Rules on trunks or routes no longer allow a ‘w’ anywhere in the prepend field
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Another reason to hold off on installing FreePBX 2.8
image from Engadget Apple updated their iPod lineup last Wednesday and we have to agree that it was a much better event than Apple’s iPod event last September which turned out to be a much predicted dud. Apple updated the iPod Shuffle to bring the buttons back from the second gen, made it even smaller and according to Steve Jobs , combined the best of both VoiceOver and Buttons.
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Apple’s New iLineup : New iPod Shuffle, Redesigned Nano, Marvelous Touch
It’s quite simple, push the reset button until all 4 lights blink and then turn on solid (about 10 secs). Then discover it’s DHCP assigned address and connect to it using “admin/1234″ as user/password … Yes, it is simple, but what was unexpected was that I wasted a day trying to figure out why the username/password kept failing.
The use of VPN by consumers has increased over the years as it is the only way for internet users in Oman to use VoIP services – which have been banned in Oman for a number of years now. Some VPN protocols such as PPTP are already completely blocked in Oman and providers of other VPN solutions are increasingly discovered by the ISP and are blocked on individual basis. In the latest episode of internet censorship in Oman, the Telecom Regulation Authority of Oman has announced its plans to completely ban the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and would require companies to acquire the TRA’s permission before they can use them.
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Omantel Block(VoIP(YearsBack),VPN(NowOnwards))
Image via Wikipedia I just wanted to give FreeSWITCH users a heads-up to the following links: Use FreeSWITCH To Make Free Calls With gmail Voice Interface! Use FreeSWITCH To *Receive* Free Calls With Google Voice! Google Voice (FreeSWITCH Wiki) So, who will be the first to make this work in Asterisk ? Note that this does NOT appear to require a DID number or Gizmo5 account, unlike some of the methods that we and others have published for making free outgoing calls with a Google Voice account. EDIT: It appears they’ve also added a section on Receiving Calls From Google Voice to the Wiki page — “FreeSWITCH and mod_dingaling now allow you to receive incoming Google Voice calls
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FreeSWITCH users: Use FreeSWITCH To Make (and now also receive) Free Calls With gmail Voice Interface!
@ tuxinstall.blogspot.com [2/Sep/2010] http://tuxinstall.blogspot.com/2010/09/deploy-installing-freeswitch-voip-on.html This HowTo can be downloaded at http://www.slideshare.net/AbhishekKr/free-switch-cent-os FreeSWITCH on RedHat, Fedora, CentOS To Install ‘FreeSWITCH’ on CentOS/RedHat/Fedora Installing Dependencies {Require Internet} =========================================== yum -y install autoconf automake libtool …….
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[tuxinstall.blogspot.com] Installing FreeSWITCH on Linux
It is relatively easy to find products that can be used to make cheap calls to Oman from almost any location in the world but making international calls from Oman is another matter. The Omani government has attempted to block most cheap international calling options so people (especially expats) are forced to use the high cost, government controlled monopoly phone company to make international calls
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How to Make Cheap International Calls from Oman with Skype
When you think of telecommunications you may think of such names as AT&T, Sprint, or MCI. However, in the Greater New England area telecommunications services has become synonymous with Ryan Porter. Ryan Porter’s dedication to telecommunications and assisting customers in finding the most ideal solution to meet their regional enterprise needs. Ryan has been notified that he will be the recipient of the “Gold Standard Telecommunications Award for Greater Rhode Island and Surrounding Counties”. This is the first time ever for this award to be won and will presented by his older brother Rick Porter via the telephone on August 23rd.
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Ryan Porter Brings the Gold Standard of Telecommunications Solutions
Rhythm NewMedia’s study on the use of mobile video is intriguing. The researchers said they found that use of mobile video is accelerating far faster than is commonly assumed. Just between the first and second quarters, they said, video views grew by
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The iPhone and Android Will Continue to Slug it Out
It is possible that Google has the public’s best interests at heart in the agreement it struck last week with Verizon. As I pointed out last week, however, a corporation has significant legal and fiduciary responsibilities and has a responsibility to
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Google Still Dodges Questions on Wireless Net Neutrality