Small Office VoIP On The Cheap
This post is the second in a series addressing some thoughts about ATAs. The first dealt with cordless phones and can be found here. I’m not a big fan of analog terminal adapters (a.k.a. ATAs.) If...
View ArticleHow To Add a Cellular Trunk to Your VoIP System: Part 1
Originally published May 9, 2008 at www.smallnetbuilder.com Our Asterisk based home/office phone system provides tremendous flexibility in handling our phone calls. It gave us the opportunity to...
View ArticleAdding A Cellular Trunk To A Home Office VOIP System: Part 2
Originally published June 6, 2008 at www.smallnetbuilder.com Welcome back! In Part 1, I took you through the thought process that led me to want to add cellular-based access to my home’s VoIP system. I...
View ArticleNerd Vittles Asks “Why Wait For An Asterisk to Skype Gateway?”
Ward Mundy over at Nerd Vittles has a great post describing how to build your own Asterisk-to-Skype gateway using the readily available SIP-To-Sis software. They note that this is the core of the...
View ArticlePeace In VoIPland: Bridging the SIP & Skype Kingdoms
Last year a number of people lead a charge to get Skype to open their network to greater interoperability with the open standards-based VoIP world. Gizmo5′s Michael Robertson, ever the instigator, was...
View ArticleKaraka XMPP-To-Skype Gateway Is Released
Apparently Skype gateways are all the rage in 2009. Yesterday saw the release of Karaka, software that forms an XMPP gateway to Skyp IM and presence information.
View ArticleDigium Reports Status Of Skype For Asterisk
What with all the action surrounding Skype gateways the past few weeks it seems fitting that Digium chime in with a status report on their own Skype-For-Asterisk effort. From this post it seems that...
View ArticleOpen Source Hardware Where Art Thou?
VoIP Supply’s Garrett Smith has an interesting post the other day. Actually, we can cross reference a couple of posts to follow his line of thinking. Firstly, he offers some advice on selecting an...
View ArticleAn Unexepected Benefit Of My SIP-to-Cellular Gateway
It’s been a while since I installed the little Portech MV-370 GSM gateway. It sits in the office IT stack and does what it does. When I’m traveling it lets me call home using my unlimited...
View ArticleGigaset One: Bluetooth-Based Cell-to-PSTN Interface
A couple of weeks ago friend Tony up at Gigaset promised to send me a couple of the newer Gigaset DECT handsets that they’ve started to sell in the US. The box arrived and true to his promise there are...
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