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Counterpath and Digium Do It!


We will be welcoming Bria Product Director Todd Carothers to the VUC in a second segment on Jan 29th at 1PM EST.

From this press release:

CounterPath and Digium(R) Launch Asterisk-Based Multimedia Softphone

Based on open standards, Bria for Asterisk combines Digium’s Asterisk, AsteriskNOW and Asterisk Business Edition telephony platforms with Bria Professional, CounterPath’s enterprise-class, multimedia softphone. Bria for Asterisk gives users advanced telephony features, yet can be quickly set up and configured with any Asterisk deployment.

The VUC is officially testing Bria on Windows and OS X and we hope provide valuable feedback to Counterpath during this launch.

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Yet another group of geeks discuss the iPad

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Skype for Asterisk, Astricon, SIP for Skype

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Lots of talk about Skype for Asterisk, with Tim Panton who has been on the SfA beta for over a year and who will be speaking at Astricon in October.

IRC Transcript 2009-09-04

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New Gigaset Giveaway Contest

S675IP and an A58H accessory handset

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Thanks to Gigaset of North America, we are planning a new giveaway of a Gigaset wideband-capable SIP/DECT phone.

To win the Gigaset you will have to be in the IRC channel #voip-users-conference as well as on the conference.

The winner will need to identify a short piece of music and the album it comes from.

Be there!

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SIP for the Apple iPhone Platform

Coincidentally with the session on mobile voip with Ruben Olsen, I finally pulled the trigger on an iPod Touch “second generation”. This is IMO the iPhone without phone, camera or GPS. What that leaves is a very good mobile computing platform with WiFi, an mp3 and video player and the worlds hippest most intelligent interface to date.

NOTE: I will add new clients I test to this thread as comments

NEW note: Ruben just published this article on the subject.

Cutting to the chase, I have tried several SIP clients in the last 48 hours, and here are a few of my experiences.

The best performer has been iPico, $9.99 but far ahead of the others in most things. It will do only a single SIP account though. Call quality was best and it dials SIP URI, something none of the others do AFAIK. This is important because to dial in to Talkshoe, ZipDX and many other things that interest me, I need SIP URI. Edit: iSip has fixed the audio issue I was having and demonstrated excellent support in the process.

Next comes iSip, $6.99, (built on pjsip). Multiple SIP accounts, decent interface but a problem with outgoing audio quality.

The I tried WeePhone, $4.99. It has the least well done interface, but looked as if it would work fine, but the outgoing audio was absolutely unuseable, horribly distorted.

Skype (not really a SIP client, but…) works well but can not make free calls to SIP services so I’m just adding that I did test it and it does work. And it’s free.

Looking at the reviews on the app store isn’t too enlightening because many reviewers don’t know much about the technology, so they are reacting to what the interface looks like or the fact that they don’t know what auth user name or proxy is, which would impede them in getting the client to work.

The main trouble I have had so far is the microphone that is a part of Apple’s $30 headset. If I can figure out how to keep that facing me, I think things will work better :)

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Olle E. Johansson: RTFM Got Me Started

Olle E. Johansson (oej) is not just another boring developer, he’s a refreshing change, a family guy, a very good presenter and he shares our enjoyment of good wine. Olle has a vision and speaks of presence and the future of VoIP.

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This video was shot with a tool I just got so there are mistakes in the switching. I’d rather leave it rough, including the audio dropping out, because the most interesting stuff is there. I promise to do better next time.

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Gizmo5 and OpenSky with Michael Robertson

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IRC Transcript 2009-04-03

I’ve been testing all the ways I can find to connect between phones and Skype. I happened to be testing OpenSky when I saw some posts from Michael Robertson on the asterisk-users mailing list. As I exchanged a few emails with Michael, I realized he had been a founder of Mp3.com and well as Gizmo5.

He was generous enough with his time to spend a full hour (on a cellphone!) answering questions and sharing thoughts about the various SIP to Skype solutions, including Digium’s Skype for Asterisk, Gizmo’s OpenSky and Skype’s SIP for Skype which Michael calls vaporware.

Post conference chat, aka “Cognac”

The post conference has discussions about the expectation that all services should be free with David Frankel of ZipDX.com Randal Schwartz from FLOSS Weekly and the regular gang. Due to some problems with Talkshoe, various audio sources are used so you can hear what different phones sound like.

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SIP Hacking, Security, AMOOCON and AGI

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IRC Transcript 2009-03-27

SIP hacking has escalated and there was a wave of it in recent times. John Todd published a simple common sense set of rules that are worth reading. One of the main risk areas is using user names and secrets that are too easy to guess (such as extension 200, username=2000,password=wakeme).

More on SIP for Skype etc. That looks like it will be an ongiung discussion. See the session with Michael Robertson above.

We briefly reviewed a new book called Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming. John Todd and /me have both been looking at it and we both think it looks good. Since the discussion, I’ve read more of it and I will talk more about it in a future session.

Amazon link (beer money!)
Asterisk Gateway Interface 1.4 and 1.6 Programming

We also mentioned AMOOCON where we can meet up for those of you who will be in Europe or are already there. I will be presenting two papers, one on VoicePHP and one on the VoIP community and various social networking tools.

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Counterpath and eyebeam with Jason Fichl

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IRC Transcript 2009-02-20

Jason Fischl from Counterpath joins us to talk about their SIP clients and more.

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Cellphone SIP via wifi and 3G, Astricon last minute

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It’s down to the wire for Astricon, a few days. We talked to a few people who have experienced Nokia phones SIP stack. Other more general stuff, and the dCap certification process.

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Recent Voip News & Commentary with Michael Graves

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Recent Voip News & Commentary, Digium partners with FreePBX, SIP/DECT vs ATA+DECT for cordless phones, Karle Fife on the new Rhino failover BRI/PRI card, John Todd on “The Proxifier”, Darrick Hartman announced Astlinux 0.6 expected next week, includes Asterisk GUI 2.0 Digital Opsys draw for Astricon 08 exhibitors pass Many thanks to Michael Graves for stepping in!

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