Skype and SIP

Published on 09 September 2009 by Colman Carpenter in Asterisk, Blog, News, Open Source, Telephony

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So Skype have embraced the SIP world, including integration into Asterisk. It had to happen as there was no other way Skype was going to make significant inroads into the business market (see my previous blog on Ebay selling Skype). So now it’s possible, from within your VoIP-enabled PBX, to make a receive calls to [...]

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Interesting news over at bMighty.com Back when Microsoft announced that it was entering the SME VoIP market with the Response Point product, I will admit to a shiver of apprehension. The mighty Microsoft machine has more than once entered a market, grabbed significant market share, and through tight integration with Windows and/or Office, made its [...]

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Yesterday I received in the post some information from a company (who shall remain unnamed) in the public sector who had put out an Invitation To Tender (ITT) for a new, VoIP-enabled telephone system. The ITT itself contained very little information indeed about their requirements, as is often the case. However, it did mention the [...]

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Dell to sell VoIP

Published on 25 January 2008 by Colman Carpenter in Blog, News, Open Source, Strategy, Telephony, VoIP

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From VentureVoIP comes news that Dell are going to supply SME’s with Fonality’s Asterisk-based VoIP system – PBXtra. Details of the arrangement are sketchy at the moment, but already there are murmerings of doubt amidst the obvious conclusion that this is a strong deal for Fonality and potentially for the SME market worldwide, 35 million [...]

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An interesting news item on the Teleappliant site here. Of course, Teleappliant aren’t the only company to offer an Asterisk-based PBX

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The world of VoIP promises a lot, and not the least of those promises is free phone calls via the internet. The reality, at least for now, is not quite that simple; but then is anything ever that simple ? That’s not to say that free internet calls are not possible, rather that you have [...]

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Rather than give you chapter and verse, have a read of this article on Digium, the company behind the Asterisk Open Source PBX and you might get an inkling as to the opportunities still available to you when you can’t charge for licences.

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