VoIP Users Conference » Dave Michels http://www.voipusersconference.org Live every Friday at 12 Noon Eastern time Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:43:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.voipusersconference.org/feed/podcast/ This is a weekly live meeting of people all over the world who are interested in sharing knowledge and experiences about telephony over the Internet. Guests include authors, innovators, programmers and Internet personalities. The conference is reached by phoning in using SIP, Skype or a web page widget shown on the main web site http://vuc.me @voipusers clean @voipusers itunes@voipusersconference.org itunes@voipusersconference.org (@voipusers) VOIP allows you to do almost anything with incoming and outgoing telephone lines. telephony,communications,international,asterisk,freeswitch,freepbx,skype VoIP Users Conference » Dave Michels http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/_vuc144.jpg http://www.voipusersconference.org Happy 2012 from the VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/happy-2012-from-the-vuc/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/happy-2012-from-the-vuc/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:04:40 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=3735

The recording is an informal chat (is there any other kind of VUC?) about Republic Wireless (why won’t Brian talk to us?) and Invoxia’s iOS desk phone, the one Michael Graves is evaluating.

2011 was a fantastic year for VUC. I was able to get to Astricon, thanks to Digium, and met several new VUC folks (such as the ubiquituous James Body) as well as seeing old friends again, including the elusive John Todd 2.0.

We’re on Google Plus this year and we hope to see it grow: http://gplus.to/vuc. Please spread the word. G+ is a great way for us to communicate about each week’s sessions. Don’t be shy, that’s what we’re there for.

We had help from great sponsors and partners: Voxeo Labs, Sangoma, OnSIP.com, e4strategies and of course our great partnerships with ZipDX and Voxbone.

We chatted with amazing people doing amazing things: Allison Smith, Bryan Johns, Simon Wood, John “Captain Crunch” Draper, Kevin Fleming, Chris Veazy, Danielle Morrill, Chris Matthieu, Diana Cionoiu, Gerd Graumann, Jason Goecke, Dan York , David Burgess, Steven Song, Dave Michels, Ward Mundy, Brough Turner, Eric Klein, Nir Simionovich, Ben Klang, Alok Saboo, Alex Balashov, Andy Abramson, Bryan Martin, John Riordan, Charlotte Oliver, Emil Ivov, Rob Wolpov, Mike Oeth, Thilo Salmon, Frederic Dickey, Pascal Doré, Todd Carothers, Randal Schwartz, Jim Gettys, Dave Taht, Hugh Goldstein, Adrian Georgescu, Andrew Kuan and all the great regulars!

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/happy-2012-from-the-vuc/feed/ 0 Adrian Georgescu,Alex Balashov,allison smith,Alok Saboo,Andrew Kuan,Android,Andy Abramson,Astricon,Ben Klang,Brough Turner,Bryan Johns,Bryan Martin The recording is an informal chat (is there any other kind of VUC?) about Republic Wireless (why won't Brian talk to us?) and Invoxia's iOS desk phone, the one Michael Graves is evaluating. - 2011 was a fantastic year for VUC. The recording is an informal chat (is there any other kind of VUC?) about Republic Wireless (why won't Brian talk to us?) and Invoxia's iOS desk phone, the one Michael Graves (http://mjgraves.org) is evaluating. 2011 was a fantastic year for VUC. I was able to get to Astricon, thanks to Digium, and met several new VUC folks (such as the ubiquituous James Body) as well as seeing old friends again, including the elusive John Todd 2.0. We're on Google Plus (http://gplus.to/vuc) this year and we hope to see it grow: http://gplus.to/vuc. Please spread the word. G+ is a great way for us to communicate about each week's sessions. Don't be shy, that's what we're there for. We had help from great sponsors and partners: Voxeo Labs (http://labs.vixeo.com), Sangoma (http://sangoma.com), OnSIP.com (http://onsip.com), e4strategies (http://e4strategies.com) and of course our great partnerships with ZipDX (http://zipdx.com) and Voxbone (http://voxbone.com). We chatted with amazing people doing amazing things: Allison Smith, Bryan Johns, Simon Wood, John "Captain Crunch" Draper, Kevin Fleming, Chris Veazy, Danielle Morrill, Chris Matthieu, Diana Cionoiu, Gerd Graumann, Jason Goecke, Dan York , David Burgess, Steven Song, Dave Michels, Ward Mundy, Brough Turner, Eric Klein, Nir Simionovich, Ben Klang, Alok Saboo, Alex Balashov, Andy Abramson, Bryan Martin, John Riordan, Charlotte Oliver, Emil Ivov, Rob Wolpov, Mike Oeth, Thilo Salmon, Frederic Dickey, Pascal Doré, Todd Carothers, Randal Schwartz, Jim Gettys, Dave Taht, Hugh Goldstein, Adrian Georgescu, Andrew Kuan and all the great regulars! @voipusers clean 46:53 Dave Michels on Lync http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/dave-michels-on-lync/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/dave-michels-on-lync/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 11:00:59 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=3180

Dave Michels (@DaveMichels on Twitter) will finally clue us in on Lync, a topic he’s covered many times in his excellent blog that you can follow at www.pindropsoup.com.

Microsoft’s VoIP solution known as Lync is changing the conversation at the enterprise. Rarely does a single product cause so much controversy and impact. Dave Michels will provide an overview of Lync, and an analyst’s view of why its stirring the pot.

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/dave-michels-on-lync/feed/ 2 Dave Michels,Lync,Microsoft,Pin Drop Soup,sip,uc,unified communication Dave Michels (@DaveMichels on Twitter) will finally clue us in on Lync, a topic he's covered many times in his excellent blog that you can follow at www.pindropsoup.com. - Microsoft's VoIP solution known as Lync is changing the conversation at the en... Dave Michels (@DaveMichels on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/davemichels)) will finally clue us in on Lync, a topic he's covered many times in his excellent blog that you can follow at www.pindropsoup.com (http://www.pindropsoup.com/search/label/Lync). (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/lync-logo.jpg)Microsoft's VoIP solution known as Lync is changing the conversation at the enterprise. Rarely does a single product cause so much controversy and impact. Dave Michels will provide an overview of Lync, and an analyst's view of why its stirring the pot. @voipusers clean 1:21:56 Left to Our Own Devices http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/left-to-our-own-devices/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/left-to-our-own-devices/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:20:38 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=3057

IRC Transcript and, here are the index labels we spoke of, generated by Audacity (and me). The first column is seconds in to the recording after removing silences.

106    News of the World phone hackers
875     Foreign SIM cards, USA phone booths
1273    Is toll-free still relevant?
1581    Skype v5, and new linux version
1641    Security: Telepacific outage
1745   Security: attacked? Who you gonna call?
2250   Epsilon email db breach
2381    Comodo breach, bad DSL, bad
2631    Linphone, new versions including OS X and Windows
2775   g711, not that bad!
2887  iPhone SIP apps
3346   Lync USB phone
3957   Visio TV checking file system?
4964  Anyone using Google Talk VUC gateway?
5109    Index or transcript of VUC sessions
5442   IRC transcript of VUC

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/left-to-our-own-devices/feed/ 0 Comodo breach,Dan York,Darrick Hartman,Dave Michels,Epsilon breach,foreign SIM,GTalk VUC gateway,index,Karl Fife,Linphone,Lync USB phone,phone hackers IRC Transcript and, here are the index labels we spoke of, generated by Audacity (and me). The first column is seconds in to the recording after removing silences. - 106    News of the World phone hackers 875     Foreign SIM cards, USA phone booths IRC Transcript and, here are the index labels we spoke of, generated by Audacity (and me). The first column is seconds in to the recording after removing silences. 106    News of the World phone hackers 875     Foreign SIM cards, USA phone booths 1273    Is toll-free still relevant? 1581    Skype v5, and new linux version 1641    Security: Telepacific outage 1745   Security: attacked? Who you gonna call? 2250   Epsilon email db breach 2381    Comodo breach, bad DSL, bad 2631    Linphone, new versions including OS X and Windows 2775   g711, not that bad! 2887  iPhone SIP apps 3346   Lync USB phone 3957   Visio TV checking file system? 4964  Anyone using Google Talk VUC gateway? 5109    Index or transcript of VUC sessions 5442   IRC transcript of VUC @voipusers clean 1:31:13 VUC Holiday Special Edition with e4 Strategies http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/holiday-special-edition/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/holiday-special-edition/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:00:38 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=2705

VUC Holiday Special Edition

Today, our sponsor e4 Strategies is giving away two  HD-capable Gigaset DE380 IP R VoIP phones (shipment to North America only)

Polycom Productivity Suite licenses. We’ll be giving these away each week for the next few weeks. The suite adds the following features to your USB-equipped Polycom IP phone:

Corporate Directory Access
Local Call Recording
Visual Conference Management
Voice Quality Monitoring

From Voxeo Labs and Tropo

$100 Tropo Account Credits
Tropo T-Shirts
Tropo USB Bottle Openers loaded with our open-source software.
A Signed Copy of Dan York’s Latest Book
Congrats!
Alok from Truevoipbuzz.com and @Microchip32 were the first two Gigaset phone winners.
Suzanne Bowen from DIDx will look great in her new Tropo T-shirt!
Greg gets $100 credit for his new Tropo.com developer account
Tim @steely_glint Don, John @jdbalogh, Kenny @akant won Tropo USB bottle openers.
More prizes next week and the DIDx promotion drawing.
]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/holiday-special-edition/feed/ 0 Dan York,Dave Michels,DIDX,e4strategies,Fred Posner,Gigaset,giveaway,Karl Fife,Michael Graves,polycom,skype,Suzanne Bowen VUC Holiday Special Edition Today, our sponsor e4 Strategies is giving away two  HD-capable Gigaset DE380 IP R VoIP phones (shipment to North America only) - Polycom Productivity Suite licenses. We'll be giving these away each week for the next few w... (http://www.voipusersconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/GigasetDE.png)VUC Holiday Special Edition Today, our sponsor e4 Strategies (http://e4strategies.com)is giving away two  HD-capable Gigaset DE380 IP R (http://www.8774e4voip.com/Gigaset_DE380_IP_R_p/gigaset-de380-ip-r.htm) VoIP phones (shipment to North America only) Polycom Productivity Suite (http://www.8774e4voip.com/Polycom_Productivity_Suite_p/polycom-productivity-suite.htm) licenses. We'll be giving these away each week for the next few weeks. The suite adds the following features to your USB-equipped Polycom IP phone: Corporate Directory Access Local Call Recording Visual Conference Management Voice Quality Monitoring From Voxeo Labs and Tropo (http://tropo.com/) $100 Tropo Account Credits Tropo T-Shirts Tropo USB Bottle Openers loaded with our open-source software. A Signed Copy of Dan York's Latest Book DIDx (http://didx.net) has offered a big promo package (http://voipusers.posterous.com/#!/didx-voip-marketing-package), just enter here to win it. Congrats! Alok from Truevoipbuzz.com (http://truvoipbuzz.com/) and @Microchip32 were the first two Gigaset phone winners. Suzanne Bowen from DIDx (http://didx.net) will look great in her new Tropo T-shirt! Greg gets $100 credit for his new Tropo.com (http://tropo.com) developer account Tim @steely_glint Don, John @jdbalogh, Kenny @akant won Tropo USB bottle openers (http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2010/11/want-a-tropocom-usb-bottle-opener.html). More prizes next week and the DIDx promotion drawing. @voipusers clean 40:51 VoIP Users Christmas http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/tropo-gigaset-zipdx/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/tropo-gigaset-zipdx/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:59:30 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=2717

VoIP Users Conference (VUC) is probably the largest and longest-running weekly meeting of an international technology group. Callers join us live from at least 3 continents each week. This “Christmas Eve Edition” lasted 6 1/2 hours. The first two segments are just above. Here’s the final segment: 3 hours and 45 minutes. A few highlights:

Adam Kalsey of Tropo on connecting Skype to Tropo. I’ve tried just about everything but SMS and IM on Tropo for the moment. It’s hard to believe how easy it is to get started in a language of your choice: JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python or Groovy. This overview will convince you to get started, since it’s completely FREE to develop a Tropo app. Creating a simple IVR in PHP took me about 5 minutes, and because they have international DID available, I was able to see what it sounds like on the phone and Skype and even do proof of concept demos for my customers.

Michael Graves tries to get the Gigaset  DE380 firmware updated and connected in g722.

Dave Michels of Pin Drop Soup fame chimes in about Google’s Chrome OS netbook prototype

David Frankel of ZipDX talks about the REINVITE issues they face with non-standard SIP implementations

Crap support

Did I ever mention that support for Skype for Business is one of the worst I’ve ever experienced? Skype blocked one of my accounts last week and it took 4 days to get it unblocked, during which I told them “I can’t log in” and they wrote back with reasons my account might be blocked and suggesting I “log in to my account…” and I wrote back saying “but I can’t log in…” etc ad nauseum. Skype support sucks, no better way to say it.

Great support

On the other hand, Voxeo support, which I also experienced that same week, is excellent. I went to their #tropo IRC channel, and had answers within minutes and action on my account from a Voxeo support person. Kudos to Voxeo.

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/tropo-gigaset-zipdx/feed/ 1 Adam Kalsey,Chrome OS,Dave Michels,David Frankel,Gigaset DE380,Google Netbook,Groovy,Javascript,Michael Graves,php,Pin Drop Soup,Python VoIP Users Conference (VUC) is probably the largest and longest-running weekly meeting of an international technology group. Callers join us live from at least 3 continents each week. This "Christmas Eve Edition" lasted 6 1/2 hours. VoIP Users Conference (VUC) is probably the largest and longest-running weekly meeting of an international technology group. Callers join us live from at least 3 continents each week. This "Christmas Eve Edition" lasted 6 1/2 hours. The first two segments are just above. Here's the final segment: 3 hours and 45 minutes. A few highlights: Adam Kalsey of Tropo (http://tropo.com) on connecting Skype (http://skype.com) to Tropo. I've tried just about everything but SMS and IM on Tropo for the moment. It's hard to believe how easy it is to get started in a language of your choice: JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python or Groovy. This overview (https://www.tropo.com/docs/scripting/overview.htm) will convince you to get started, since it's completely FREE to develop a Tropo app. Creating a simple IVR in PHP took me about 5 minutes, and because they have international DID available, I was able to see what it sounds like on the phone and Skype and even do proof of concept demos for my customers. Michael Graves (http://www.mgraves.org/) tries to get the Gigaset  DE380 (http://www.8774e4voip.com/Gigaset_DE380_IP_R_p/gigaset-de380-ip-r.htm) firmware updated and connected in g722. Dave Michels of Pin Drop Soup (http://www.pindropsoup.com/) fame chimes in about Google's Chrome OS netbook prototype (http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program.html) David Frankel of ZipDX (http://zipdx.com) talks about the REINVITE (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/SIP+method+invite+re-invite) issues they face with non-standard SIP implementations Crap support Did I ever mention that support for Skype for Business is one of the worst I've ever experienced? Skype blocked one of my accounts last week and it took 4 days to get it unblocked, during which I told them "I can't log in" and they wrote back with reasons my account might be blocked and suggesting I "log in to my account..." and I wrote back saying "but I can't log in..." etc ad nauseum. Skype support sucks, no better way to say it. Great support On the other hand, Voxeo support (http://www.voxeo.com/support/), which I also experienced that same week, is excellent. I went to their #tropo IRC channel (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=tropo), and had answers within minutes and action on my account from a Voxeo support person. Kudos to Voxeo. @voipusers clean 3:15:49 Part 2: USB, SBC, NAT http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/usb-sbc-nat/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/usb-sbc-nat/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:00:11 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=2051

We talk about several topics in part 2 including Skype, USB connections for VoIP, new devices like the Gigaset One, a cellphone gateway. Lots of talk about NAT with Asterisk and SIP. The usual chatter from friends around the table in our weekly “club”.

Among the participants Tim @steely_glint, Neil from IdeaSIP, Karl @karlfife, Michael @mjgraves and Graves on SoHo VoIP, David Frankel from ZipDX who furnish our great wideband conference facilities, Dave @DaveMichels from Pin Drop Soup, Pascal from Media5.

Welcome to a very old friend of mine, Bob from Future Video. The VUC encourages new people to be a part of our weekly talks. Please join us so you can chime in, ask questions and generally have a great time.

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/usb-sbc-nat/feed/ 0 asterisk,Bob Cohen,broadband,cellphones,communication,computing,Dave Michels,David Frankel,discussions,freeware,Future Video,gateway We talk about several topics in part 2 including Skype, USB connections for VoIP, new devices like the Gigaset One, a cellphone gateway. Lots of talk about NAT with Asterisk and SIP. The usual chatter from friends around the table in our weekly "club". We talk about several topics in part 2 including Skype, USB connections for VoIP, new devices like the Gigaset One (http://www.gigasetone.com), a cellphone gateway. Lots of talk about NAT with Asterisk (http://asterisk.org) and SIP. The usual chatter from friends around the table in our weekly "club". Among the participants Tim @steely_glint (http://twitter.com/steely_glint), Neil from IdeaSIP (http://ideasip.com), Karl @karlfife (http://twitter.com/karlfife), Michael @mjgraves and Graves on SoHo VoIP (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/), David Frankel from ZipDX (http://www.zipdx.com) who furnish our great wideband conference facilities, Dave @DaveMichels (http://twitter.com/davemichels) from Pin Drop Soup (http://www.pindropsoup.com/), Pascal from Media5 (http://media5corp.com). Welcome to a very old friend of mine, Bob from Future Video (http://www.futurevideo.com/). The VUC encourages new people to be a part of our weekly talks. Please join us so you can chime in, ask questions and generally have a great time. @voipusers clean 1:22:20 pbx Choices: Hosted vs On Premise http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/pbx-hosted-vs-cpe/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/pbx-hosted-vs-cpe/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:00:26 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=1793

[audio:http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-333211.mp3|titles=pbx Choices]

A fight to the finish with VUC’s resident VoIP skeptic Dave Michels and Mike Oeth, CEO of  Junction Networks (OnSIP.com) on choosing between hosted and on-premises pbx.

What are the arguments for and against a hosted pbx for your business. Are they different for small and larger business pbx choices?

Dave and Mike fight it out with the help of referee Michael Graves and the roar of the crowd.

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/pbx-hosted-vs-cpe/feed/ 2 pbx,voip,sip,business Choosing a pbx for Business Helping make the decision between on-premise and hosted pbx. Randulo Zeeek clean 34:41 Past Present and Future of VoIP http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/voip-past-present-and-future/ http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/voip-past-present-and-future/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:06 +0000 VUC http://www.voipusersconference.org/?p=1456

Session 1: [audio:http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-306531.mp3|titles=best and worst of 2009 and future of VoIP]

Andy Abramson (VoIP Watch), Tim Panton (PhoneFromHere.com), Michael Graves (Graves on SoHo VoIP), David Frankel (ZipDX.com), Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles), Dave Michels (PinDropSoup.com),  Randal Schwartz , Dave Chan and others discuss the year 2009 and VoIP and the usual digressions.

At the end of session one you can hear the New Years Greetings from listeners and participants.

Session 2:
[audio:http://media.blubrry.com/winelover/recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-22622/TS-308412.mp3|titles=Part 2 of VUC Jan 1 2010]

]]> http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/voip-past-present-and-future/feed/ 0 2010,Andy Abramson,Dave Michels,David Frankel,Michael Graves,New Years Day,Pin Drop Soup,Tim Panton,Ward Mundy Session 1: - Andy Abramson (VoIP Watch), Tim Panton (PhoneFromHere.com), Michael Graves (Graves on SoHo VoIP), David Frankel (ZipDX.com), Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles), Dave Michels (PinDropSoup.com),  Randal Schwartz , Session 1: Andy Abramson (VoIP Watch (http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/)), Tim Panton (PhoneFromHere.com (http://www.phonefromhere.com)), Michael Graves (Graves on SoHo VoIP (http://www.mgraves.org/voip/)), David Frankel (ZipDX.com (http://www.zipdx.com)), Ward Mundy (Nerd Vittles (http://nerdvittles.com/)), Dave Michels (PinDropSoup.com (http://www.pindropsoup.com/)),  Randal Schwartz (http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/) , Dave Chan and others discuss the year 2009 and VoIP and the usual digressions. At the end of session one you can hear the New Years Greetings from listeners and participants. Session 2: @voipusers clean