Pascal Dore will is was our guest Friday, to discuss Media5 Corp and their products, among them, the Media5-fone.
For the iPhone platform, a SIP client is a handy thing to have. We discovered Media5-fone in the perenial search for SIP clients that can connect us to ZipDX.com, the VUC wideband server. It happens that OnSIP.com and Sipgate.com also do g722, so we’re always happy to see a new addition. There is currently an iPhone (iPod/iPad) version and a Symbian S-60 version.

Media5 was eager to accept our help in testing the g722 app, and I’m happy to say it works well. The newest version with the features we’re testing now should be out in a week or two. I hope to use the app from China (but who knows how that wiill work out?)

The recording is from part of the ZipDX recording of April 16, 2010.

The Media5-fone is a SIP Client (softphone) that enables users to make and receive VoIP calls. VoIP calls are calls established over a Wi-Fi connection using the IP technology of the Media5-fone.

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Various topics:

Randall Schwartz and Floss Weekly vs Wikipedia

A Visit to HD Communication Summit near Paris

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

Yep, three of them, count ‘em, three SIP xcleints should be g722 capable soon for the Mac (and linux and windows).

I have been testing (and/or talking to the authors of) these:

Blink (Mac OS X only, )

Zoiper (SIP/IAX Linux, Mac, Win)

Telephone (Mac OS X only)

They all use pjsip which caused some distortion problems at first. This thread in the Asterisk-dev mailing list sheds some light on the issues to change.

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Heroic efforts were required to produce this live call and edit it, and it will take patience and strong will to listen to it because of the noise and levels. We post it here because a lot of interesting things were said by participants (in random order) Tim Panton, Darrick Hartmann, Barry Kline, Philippe Lindheimer, Fred Posner, Zoa, David Duffet and whoever else wandered in.

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All in all, Digium did a great job in organizing the event with compelling content, fun, good food, and a space where people with our shared interests can gather and basically bother Allison Smith for three whole days.

IRC TRanscript 20091016

MP3 Link

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IRC Transcript 2009-08-14

We referred a lot to the HD Connect Now site.

This week, Doug Mohney joins us. Doug has clocked more than 20 years of experience in the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) arena between working in real world businesses and writing about them.

His resume includes Editor in Chief, Telecom and Digital Media Group for a B2B emedia company and Editor-in-Chief at VON Magazine (the pulvermedia incarnation, not the Virgo one). Publications he’s written for over the past dozen years include Boardwatch, Mobile Radio Technology/Urgent Communications, The Inquirer, and VON Magazine, covering telecommunications, the Internet, and online video.

His hands-on/real-world experience includes stints at two high-tech start-up companies, one that went public (DIGEX) and one that didn’t (SkyCache/Cidera). Joining DIGEX as employee number 10 in 1993, Doug had a ring-side seat to the trials and tribulations of a fast growing, VC-funded startup doing the boom growth years of the Internet.

Some of Doug’s articles.

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Daniel Berninger – Washington, DC based independent technolgy analyst. Expert in technical and regulatory aspects of Internet enabled disruptive communications. Active in VoIP since 1995. Daniel worked on the original assessment of VoIP at Bell Laboratories and led early gateway deployments at Verizon , HP, and NASA after joining VocalTec Communications. He won the 1999 VON Pioneer Award as co-founder of the VON Coalition and worked on the founding of ITXC , Vonage , and Free World Dialup . Daniel gets quoted frequently on regulatory, antitrust, and VoIP matters.

Dan’s last visit on September 14, 2007 is here.

Here are a few articles about wideband:

Wideband Audio Codecs Gaining Steam,

Wideband Audio Boosts VoIP Quality

G.722, WideBand Audio

Download: Part 1 Part 2
IRC Transcript 2009-04-24

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ZipDX enterprise conference solutions

ZipDX is a wideband (g722) conference server. We talk about the possibilities. This turned into a long term thing. To join the VUC weekly calls in g722, call 200901@login.zipdx.com