It looks like that for the near term the fairy tale relationship between Nokia and VoIP has ended. Om Malik first reported last week that the latest Nokia phones are shipping without the VoIP capabilities which once made them the darlings amongst the VoIP community. This development comes at an interesting time, seeing as Mobile VoIP services are gaining traction, which should full further sales of VoIP enabled/compatible phones.
4,000.
The number of products we currently carry.
10.
The number of emails I get from vendors any given day about adding a new product to VoIP Supply.
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The number of questions I ask when thinking about whether or not to add a product.
What is that question you ask?
“Do our customers need this product?”
There is a problem with that question though. How do I know what YOU really need, if I am not constantly asking YOU what it is that YOU need.
So I am going to put down my mind reading apparatus for a moment and ask you a simple question:
“What products should we add to VoIP Supply?”
I want to hear from YOU what products we should be adding to our product catalog, so leave me some suggestions in the comments and hopefully we can add that product (or product type) to our catalog.
After all, if you ask us to add it, it is probably because YOU need it…and we want to make sure we have everything YOU need for VoIP.
This will be the last in the AudioCodes setup series. A quick and dirty configuration for a vanilla Asterisk setup. AudioCodes uses the network address 10.1.10.10 for FXS and 10.1.10.11 for FXO gateways. Setup your network accordingly to access the default address.
DSL Reports is reporting that AT&T will soon be releasing a new pure play VoIP product that allows customers to “Bring Your Own Broadband” that comes at a time when AT&T just announced that it was canceling its CallVantage service. This begs the question,
“Is pure play VoIP a good play for AT&T?”
It is quite obvious that the reason the CallVantage product was canned was the inability of AT&T to grow the subscriber base and or to make that subscriber base profitable. Couple this with the fact that AT&T’s bundled data/voice service U-Verse is failing to gain traction in available markets, leads one to believe that this is a desperate play to gain market share.
Is this too good to be true? No. We are now offering the Linksys SPA942 at the special discounted price of $119.99 – which is a savings of $20! The only catch: quantities are limited. In order to get this great deal, you have to buy while supplies last!
For those not quite sure if the Linksys SPA942 is right for them, hereâs a breakdown:
Linksys SPA942
***1 week Free Ground Shipping on Select Axis and Valcom Products***
Aug. 18 – Aug. 25
We are proud to announce the addition of Valcom, a new manufacturer to our site. Weâve also added new additions within our Axis line. Our new Valcom line consists of switching power supplies and linear power supplies. In total, there are 7 new products from Valcom, all with attractive features. The Valcom power supplies boast high efficiency (90%) which means less power consumption. They also have âbrownoutâ protection with less heat dissipation.
Our free ground shipping applies to the new additions outlined in the tables below.
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With efforts to expand our Axis line, weâve added a mix of network cameras and infrared illuminators. Our camera additions include the flat, non-invasive Axis 209 series. These network cameras feature an array of functions not offered by other Axis cameras. These are outlined in the table below.
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Included in the expansion of our Axis line are six infrared illuminators. The prime function of the Axis illuminators is to provide additional light where surrounding light conditions may be insufficient for effective video surveillance. These illuminators allow for significant savings in long term operation and maintenance costs compared to traditional light bulbs. All six new illuminator additions feature adaptive illumination, vandal resistance, low-light surveillance, indoor/outdoor use and long life with low maintenance.
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Part 1
Working in the IP industry on a daily basis whether it is in new technology, sales or marketing has been a privilege to explore the fast paced and industrial changes that make this field, so unique. I guess this privilege has also led me to believe that the world is the same inside and outside my box. Which in fact is; âNOT TRUEâ at all!
So I decided to break down the three types of inbound call inquiries that frequent our queue on a day-to-day basis (of course not that many people are losing sheep and we have way more than just 1 sexy camera in stock)
1. âIâm looking for a security systemâ
2. âSomeone is steeling my sheep and I want to find out whoâ
3. âI need the Sexy Samsung SCC-C9302F in my life, do you have any in Stockâ
2 of these 3 types of questions reflect early adopters of the IP surveillance industry who know they need a solution, but do not know where to begin or even what this âso calledâ IP buzz is all about. With this dilemma in mind, âSo Whatâs All This IP Stuff Anywayâ was bornâŠâŠ
3 part series by Anthony Cafaro
Part 1
Working in the IP industry on a daily basis whether it is in new technology, sales or marketing has been a privilege to explore the fast paced and industrial changes that make this field, so unique. I guess this privilege has also led me to believe that the world is the same inside and outside my box. Which in fact is; âNOT TRUEâ at all!
So I decided to break down the three types of inbound call inquiries that frequent our queue on a day-to-day basis (of course not that many people are losing sheep and we have way more than just 1 sexy camera in stock)
1. âIâm looking for a security systemâ
2. âSomeone is steeling my sheep and I want to find out whoâ
3. âI need the Sexy Samsung SCC-C9302F in my life, do you have any in Stockâ
2 of these 3 types of questions reflect early adopters of the IP surveillance industry who know they need a solution, but do not know where to begin or even what this âso calledâ IP buzz is all about. With this dilemma in mind, âSo Whatâs All This IP Stuff Anywayâ was bornâŠâŠ
Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, a RUBY development framework for Asterisk, recently called out Digiumfor failing to make Asterisk sufficiently accessible to developers. While it is clear that Phillips has his own entrepreneurial agenda, he asserts that Asterisk alienates would-be developers by presenting an often cryptic, non-intuitive interface.
Jay goes on in detail concerning a laundry list of issues that he believes are limiting the proliferation of Asterisk beyond first adopter types.
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Nortel today announced their acquisition of Pingtel, a commercial SIP telephony platform derived from the open source sipX Enterprise Communications Server. sipX began in 1999, but in 2004 Pingtel contributed the codebase to non-profit organization SIPfoundry and it was subsequently made available under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License). Pingtel also continued to develop a commercially licensed version of sipX marketed under the name sipXchange.
The open source sipX project counted Asterisk as its main competitor, although sipX varies significantly from Asterisk in many ways. Unlike Asterisk, in sipX all call signaling is handled natively using the SIP protocol. sipX contributes call signalling and is not concerned with media and encodings, while calls are set up and packets routed point to point between endpoints. sipX also lends itself to a modular, distributed approach where individual hosts can be deployed to handle specific duties such as SIP proxy and media server.
Pingtel’s most noteworthy enterprise deployment was announced in 2006 for Amazon.com, and reportedly serves as many as 5000 users.
Today’s announcement actually marks the second sale of Pingtel, having been acquired in July 0f 2007 by Burlington, Mass based parent BlueSocket.
It will be interesting to see if Nortel’s competitors in the traditional enterprise telephony market will look to make similar purchases. Companies such as Adtran, Cisco, Avaya and Mitel could be eyeing the likes of Digium/Asterisk, Trixbox, FreeSwitch and others as Microsoft’s OCS initiative shifts into another gear.
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