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Archive for February, 2010

Project DiaStar from Dialogic

Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in VoIP

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ProjectDiaStar.orgAntony Martin and Jeff Dworkin will introduce the latest features available from ProjectDiaStar. They will also discuss the business benefits of implementing Interactive Voice/Video Response Systems and Video-Enabled Contact Centers.

Project DiaStar represents the work of dedicated team of engineering and marketing professionals that have been tasked with making certain portions of the Dialogic product portfolio accessible to the open source community.  This includes creating new open source projects, providing support and documentation for existing open source projects that utilize Dialogic components, working with other companies in the open source marketplace to get Dialogic products certified within their ecosystems, and promoting and sponsoring events and Dialogic partners that are focused on this growing space.

IRC Links Feb 26, 2010

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Pre-conference buzz: Jabra and Morse Code

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Karl Fife struts his Jabra stuff. The group talked about cordless headsets, wideband and performance of same.

From the thread of the same name on the asterisk-users mailing list, why is the Morse code channel still included in Asterisk, is Morse ever used? List to this riveting discussion to learn about the rivets that hold these things together.

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Tropo Cloud-Based Communications Platform

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voxeologoWe welcome Jason Goecke and Dan York back to talk about some of their newest services. When “JSON” talks, ideas become reality! Check out the new Tropo API.

Tropo is a cloud communications platform that makes it easy for you to quickly add voice, instant messaging (IM), and SMS to your applications, using the programming languages and tools you already know using a web services API and JSON.

On this call we talked about the newest features in Tropo and how to get started with telephony apps in the cloud without adding new infrastructure. In fact, at least one person created a developer account and wrote a short application!

Links mentioned

[6:05pm] Ze^3k: Speaking: Jason Goecke (Voxeo) about Tropo
[6:05pm] Ze^3k: Tropo.com
[6:29pm] Ze^3k: Hosted app docs
[6:30pm] danyork: there’s also the API
[6:38pm] Ze^3k: Speaking: Ward Mundy, NerdVittles.com
[6:39pm] jasongoecke: JimCifarelli yes: on tropo-webapi-ruby
[6:39pm] jasongoecke: Code here (Ruby)
[6:55pm] jasongoecke: Other grammars Tropo supports beyond Simple Grammar are GRXML and JSGF
[6:59pm] danyork: MadManMarkAu: here’s a screenshot
[7:24pm] jasongoecke: Speech Synthesis
[7:25pm] jasongoecke: madmimi.com
[7:26pm] jasongoecke: getvocal.com
[7:36pm] jasongoecke:
[7:40pm] Ze^3k: Next VUC session
[7:58pm] Ze^3k: Speaking Michael Graves: Michael’s Blog
[7:59pm] jasongoecke: Thanks again everyone, you may follow us on Twitter too:
@jsgoecke & @tropo and the Tropo blog

Full transcription of the discussion on the next page

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HD Comm Summit and Google Buzz

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Various topics:

Randall Schwartz and Floss Weekly vs Wikipedia

A Visit to HD Communication Summit near Paris

spellbound1

Google buzz and the privacy concerns surrounding it

General geolocation revelation issues and how location works via wifi

Comparing Amazon, Apple customer service and resolution of issues with Orange. All are very large companies, yet the first two manage to resolve most issues with 24 hours for me (Zeeek) whereas Orange didn’t in six weeks of repeated phone calls.

IRC Links

[5:49pm] ChanServ: [#vuc] Welcome to the VoIP Users Conference (VUC).
[5:50pm] steely_glint: Down side of Buzz – (NSFW F-bombs in the URL) (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)
[6:28pm] DFrankel: Conference Agenda: http://dev.hdcomms.com/event-schedule
[6:32pm] steely_glint: NSFW Irate blog on buzz (http://tinyurl.com/ycc3rmc)
[6:37pm] RandalSchwartz: … http://www.google.com/profiles/realmerlyn
[6:49pm] kfife: http://www.pddnet.com/news-miniature-six_axis-robot-at-md-and-m-show-021210/
[7:24pm] Zeeek:        http://www.3cx.com/phone-system/downloadlinks.html
[7:24pm] ricko73: http://www.vertical.com/products-televantage.html <–here’s the other one
[8:13pm] Zeeek: dan_lane:  http://www.8774e4voip.com/panasonic_kx_tgp550t04_p/panasonic-kx-tgp550.htm
[8:15pm] maximCH: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html
[9:18pm] Zeeek: you should beconme a fan of VUC page: http://facebook.com/voipusers
[9:55pm] CompleteTech: using http://visualroute.visualware.com/ seems ok
[9:55pm] maximCH: France Telecom http://www.google.com/finance?q=EPA:FTE

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Beginning OpenVPN 2.0.9

Posted by Zeeek/Randulo in Books, VoIP

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OpenVPN_2.0.9
The VPN topic will be of interest to all on the VUC so we’re inviting Markus Feilner, author of “Beginning OpenVPN 2.0.9“.

Two copies of this book to give away today

The following is from the preface of the book, co-authored by Norbert Graf:
OpenVPN is an outstanding piece of software that was invented by James Yonan in the year 2001 and has steadily been improved since then. No other VPN solution offers a comparable mixture of enterprise-level security, usability, and feature richness. We have been working with OpenVPN for many years now, and it has always proven to be the best solution. This book is intended to introduce OpenVPN software to network specialists and VPN newbies alike. OpenVPN works where most other solutions fail and exists on almost any platform. Thus, it is an ideal solution for problematic setups and an easy approach for the inexperienced.
On the other hand, the complexity of classic VPN solutions, especially IPsec, gives the impression that VPN technology in general is difficult and a topic only for very experienced (network and security) specialists. OpenVPN proves that this can be different, and this book aims to document that.
I want to provide both a concise description of OpenVPN’s features and an easy-to-understand introduction for the inexperienced. Though there may be many other possible ways to success in the scenarios described, the ones presented have been tested in many setups and have been selected for simplicity reasons.
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Links mentioned in IRC Feb 5, 2010
[6:19pm] NerdUno: Here are some good OpenVPN tutorials: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4856
[6:21pm] steely_glint: ecrist - http://www.phonefromhere.com/vuc/
[6:31pm] ecrist: Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea:  http://sites.inka.de/~bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
[6:32pm] kfife:        http://www.packtpub.com/openvpn/book
[6:34pm] Zeeek:        http://www.linux4afrika.de/vision.html?L=0
[6:40pm] mfeilner:        http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2009/99/SAFE-CALL
[6:41pm] mfeilner:        http://www.feilner-it.net
[6:42pm] mfeilner:        http://www.openvpn.eu
[6:43pm] mfeilner:        http://www.openvpn.eu/index.php?id=23&L=0

[7:39pm] Skibum: BTW more info on Bria 3 is available at: http://www.counterpath.com/bria.html
[8:00pm] mjgraves:        http://gigaset.com/chagall/provider/general/chagall223_02.bin
[8:21pm] JimCifarelli:        http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resource.php?item=408

Part 2: Bria Tests and more

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