I got a piece of hardware from UPS on Monday from a company called Jazinga. It's a Wifi-enabled router with a PBX that promises to make it possible to have a PBX up and running without an IT...
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In a recent post, I posited that it was possible to take the entire bandwidth of a copper line and instead of making it voice, make it data and run VoIP over the top of it. That was just a......
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I've been spending a lot of time looking at old movies made for the Bell System. One that caught my eye was this a video that showed the various parts that went into making a telephone handset:...
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If you've ever tried to distribute VoIP throughout your home and you have a lot of old phones, chances are you've run into problems with either the phones not ringing or ring improperly. This...
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France-based Thomson commissioned the folks at EliumStudio to design a Cordless DECT VoIP Phone. It is quite an innovative looking handset with some unique features. The phone sports an Internet...
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I don't normally read Valleywag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry, but Pat Phelan gets credit for tweeting about this story that suggests that Ooma may be on it's way out. Ooma is a...
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Andy Abramson responded to my post about IP phones being too big with a comment that they take a major geek to configure. I'd go a step further and say even geeks don't want to configure the...
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This week, I have been contacted by two different IP PBX vendors to review their products: TalkSwitch andthirdlane. Ok, maybe this data point is meaningless, but it's not like I hear from IP PBX...
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Able Planet has come up with a technology called LINX AUDIO that maximizes the intelligibility of speech, can clip distortion, and restricts electromagnetic interference. These things provide a truer,...
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Leo Blanco on the Mobile Technology Weblog points out that Skype is hyping some of the more "mobile" aspects of it's service in 2008. Specifically, their availability on phones from...
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One of the benefits of using open standards is that interoperability, while not guaranteed, becomes much easier. SightSpeed and Leadtek both have products that both speak the same language: SIP for...
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While VoSKY just announced their co-branded solution with Skype, Russell Shaw questions if enterprises will even consider this solution. While I agree with his solution, I agree for a different...
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This isn't the first time this has happened, but Rico Mossesgeld on The Smart PDA, another blog in the Creative Weblogging network, has quite a find: the iPod Touch and iPhone can be given a SIP...
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Earlier in the week, my present from Cubic Telecom CEO Pat Phelan arrived: Cubic Mobile. It is a Cubic Telecom-branded DP-L10 from Pirelli Broadband Solutions complete with a MAXroam SIM. It comes...
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Being a bit behind on my "to blog" list, I noticed that Linguen, the Belgium-based makers of the Sipcat IP PBX, announced a partnership of sorts with Grandstream. In short: people who buy...
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Back when I was messing with VoIP hardware a bit more, the Linksys SPA-8000 might have been an interesting device for me to look at. It's basically a SPA-2000 times four. That is, the SPA-8000...
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I want to take a moment and respond to Garrett Smith's response to yesterday's post I made about Linksys devices not being unlockable. Garrett is right: Linksys devices can be unlocked....
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According to Garrett Smith, Nuvio recently sent a letter to Linksys (Cisco) asking if they will unlock the Linksys devices that were being managed by Sunrocket. We all know by now has bit the dust....
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