What VoIP Products Do YOU Need?

August 21, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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.

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.

Setting Up an AudioCodes MP1xx FXS With Asterisk

August 20, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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.

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Is Pure Play a Good Play For AT&T?

August 19, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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.

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Linksys SPA942: New Low Price!

August 18, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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, here’s a breakdown:

Linksys SPA942

2-4 Voice Lines

2 Ethernet Ports

High Resolution Graphical Display

Power Over Ethernet Support

Axis and Valcom Free Shipping!

by Garrett Smith

***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. We’ve 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 ‘brownout’ protection with less heat dissipation.
Our free ground shipping applies to the new additions outlined in the tables below.

Valcom	Switching Power Supply	Linear Power Supply
VP-1124	x
VP-12124	x
VP-2124A	x
VP-324		x
VP-4124	x
VP-6124	x
VP-624B		x

With efforts to expand our Axis line, we’ve 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.

Axis	Flat Design Non-invasive	Progressive Scan	Tampering Alarm	Vibration, Humidity & Dust Resistant	POE
209FD	x	x			x
209FD-R	x	x	x	x	x
209MFD	x	x			x
209MFD-R	x	x	x	x	x

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.

Axis	120 – 180 Degree	50 – 100 Degree	10 -20 Degree	36 -60 Degree
T90A20	x
T90A21		x
T90A26		x
T90A33			x
T90A37				x
T90A40	x

So What’s All This IP Stuff Anyway?

August 14, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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; “NOT TRUE” 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. “I’m looking for a security system”
2. “Someone is steeling my sheep and I want to find out who”
3. “I need the Sexy Samsung SCC-C9302F in my life, do you have any in Stock”

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 ‘so called’ IP buzz is all about. With this dilemma in mind, “So What’s All This IP Stuff Anyway” was born……

So What’s All This IP Stuff Anyway?

by Garrett Smith

3 part series by Anthony Cafaro
Part 1

1. “I’m looking for a security system”
2. “Someone is steeling my sheep and I want to find out who”
3. “I need the Sexy Samsung SCC-C9302F in my life, do you have any in Stock”

Jay Phillips and Mark Spencer Square Off Over Asterisk Critique

by Garrett Smith

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 Snags Pingtel

August 13, 2008 by Garrett Smith

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.

Ask Mr. Andrews: What is ENUM?

August 12, 2008 by Garrett Smith

Dear Mr. Andrews,

What is ENUM, and why should I care about it?

ENUM is a protocol developed by the IETF (www.ietf.org) that uses the Internet DNS system to translate traditional telephone numbers into IP addressing schemes.

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What VoIP Products Do YOU Need?

Setting Up an AudioCodes MP1xx FXS With Asterisk

Is Pure Play a Good Play For AT&T?

Linksys SPA942: New Low Price!

Axis and Valcom Free Shipping!

So What’s All This IP Stuff Anyway?

So What’s All This IP Stuff Anyway?

Jay Phillips and Mark Spencer Square Off Over Asterisk Critique

Nortel Snags Pingtel

Ask Mr. Andrews: What is ENUM?

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