VoWiFi, or VoIP over Wi-Fi, is expected to be a growing niche of IP telephony, what with all the dual-mode cell phones and Wi-Fi phones starting to peek out from under wraps, and the numerous municipal Wi-Fi projects all over the world. VoIP call quality is such an important issue these days, and will beContinue Reading
Andrew Garcia at eWeek writes that open source telephony has created “a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses.” Yet SMBs are lagging behind in VoIP adoption, not for lack of interest but because they don’t know what to use. If this is you, you might consider Digium’sContinue Reading
Moshe Yudkowsky has a briliant idea regarding email addresses that extends to phone numbers: disposability. I haven’t quite gone as far as he has with email addresses, but I’ve been sketching out a “virtual email” system that could accomplish the same thing, and be used by anyone on any domain, via my web service. TheContinue Reading
Sam Houston State University is moving away from their current setup of Cisco CallManager IP PBXs and Nortel Meridian PBXs to a completely open source IP PBX system based around Asterisk. All 6,000 members of staff and students will now use the Asterisk system for all their calls, voicemail and PSTN gateway functionality. And theContinue Reading
Sylantro Systems is aiming a suite of new VoIP features at SOHOs (Small Office, Home Office) owners, particularly residential teleworkers. The offerings would give business phone functions over IP, including allowing you to use your cell phone as a business extension. Providers like SunRocket are planning to use Sylantro’s Synergy Application Feature Server software inContinue Reading