2600Hz Blog

Working with FreeSWITCH as a core part of Kazoo

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:18:46 -0700

Today, the core architects of the Kazoo platform are in Milwaukee, WI working with the amazing FreeSWITCH team. The FreeSWITCH team runs an awesome open-source project that is on the bleeding edge of communications - always. Their software, libraries and RTP integrations allow us to power the audio portions of your call, and we’re working together to allow video and other features, too.

This year, our focus is on optimizing how Kazoo and FreeSWITCH integrate. We hope to expose more FreeSWITCH features natively. Our talks today will help shape the future of the Kazoo project in that regard.

We’re pleased to continue working with, and supporting where we can, the FreeSWITCH project. If you’re interested in learning more about the inner workings of how components of Kazoo work - FreeSWITCH being one of them - we’d encourage you to come to one of our upcoming FreeSWITCH trainings or to join the FreeSWITCH team at their annual ClueCon conference in Chicago.

2600Hz Announces Full Integration with Innovative new “Carrier Pigeon” service.

Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:32:57 -0700

San Francisco, CA - April 1st, 2016 - With skyrocketing demand for integrations between different services, 2600Hz is staying ahead of the competition with a unique integration named “Carrier Pigeons”. This service allows customers to place calls to a specific number/extension where you then leave a voicemail. 2600Hz seamlessly transfers the voicemail to a thumb drive. Via automated, scalable, elastic engineering robots, the thumb drive is attached to a pigeon who is dispatched automatically to the specific location determined by the extension. Using 2600Hz Mobile services, Carrier Pigeons are tracked via GPS until they reach their destination. Their progress is shown in an amazing user interface, the Monster Pigeon app.

2600Hz’s Co-Founder Darren Schreiber explains “We’ve seen what employing contract workers has done for the transportation industry, with services like Uber and Lyft. We see no reason why this can’t be adopted in the communications industry. The challenge in our industry is that people want their voicemail messages quickly - faster than a person or a car can deliver the message. We realized that Carrier Pigeons were a natural choice.“

Co-Founder Patrick Sullivan expanded on the project further: "We are always on the bleeding edge. Now that we have integration with Voice, Video and SMS/MMS we had to think outside the box. When sitting in our conference room talking about the future of business communication, we noticed a vast amount of resources sitting outside our window – Pigeons. Most see dirty animals with wings. We see a way to deliver secure messages to places that might not have fiber or any other transit to get information to. We also believe everyone has a crazy uncle or aunt ‘living off the grid’ and you might want to communicate with them. We now have a way to do just that. This gives us a huge advantage over the typical CLEC/ILEC infrastructure. The opportunities are endless.”

The program is in Beta and is invite only. Project “Carrier Pigeon” will launch publicly in the next couple months. 2600hz has already received multiple Silicon Valley investment offers and hopes to display the technology live, on stage, at TechCrunch, with other successful projects such as Pied Piper.

For questions and information requests please contact:

Captain Crunch
CaptainCrunch@2600Hz.com
140 Geary St.
San Francisco, CA
Ph: 415-886-7900

Introducing the Next Generation of 2600Hz

Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:44:12 -0700

You may have noticed our shiny new website, featuring our new 2600Hz brand.

This is the new generation of 2600Hz, and we are so excited to share it with you.

First, let’s talk about the new 2600Hz branding. This new modern symbol represents the transmission of signals and data. It symbolizes the connection from point A to point B, which is what we do every single day. Our goal has always been to provide an elegant and powerful format for communications services. 2600Hz strives to be a leader and innovator in the telecom industry, while connecting and empowering businesses through our software.

Now, let’s talk about the next phase of 2600Hz. The new branding represents the growth we have experienced together and is of our plans moving forward. In the beginning, we put the majority of our focus into distributed architecture. We spent years building up our software with heavy emphasis on back-end engineering. While we continue to do so, this next chapter is all about you – our clients – and your customers.

Throughout the next few months you will see a stronger focus on providing tools to help you be successful. These tools range from tight integrations with other services to better developer documentation, allowing people to easily build on the platform. Our goal is to equip you with an arsenal to win more deals quickly and expand your current accounts. We believe that the best way to do this it to foster innovation from not only 2600Hz but from the community as well.

We hope you are as excited as we are! Take a look at our new website and services. There are more exciting announcements coming soon, so stay tuned!

Black Friday FreeSWITCH Bootcamp Sale!

Fri, 27 Nov 2015 01:12:18 -0800

We are currently having a special Black Friday sale, save $500 on your FreeSWITCH Bootcamp ticket - use the code: “blackfriday” to save now.

The FreeSWITCH Bootcamp is an intense three-day training, providing in-depth coverage of FreeSWITCH installation, configuration, maintenance and programming so that you can build your business. The bootcamp will be hosted in our brand new office in beautiful San Francisco. Go into the bootcamp as a Novice – and come out as a FreeSWITCH guru. Early bird pricing lasts until November 27th, but register now as there are limited spaces available.

Kazoo’s First Independent International Community Conference - Moscow 2015

Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:55:00 -0800

Open-Source is an enormous component of what powers 2600Hz. Not only are we supporting and contributing to other open-source projects, the Kazoo platform is open-source. Open-source projects have been essential in building our incredible communications systems and we want to thank anyone who has contributed to our open infrastructure.

The Kazoo platform has been growing exponentially over the past five years and its scalability was recently validated at KazooCon. This October, over 200 people were in attendance at KazooCon, representing over twenty states and fourteen countries. We were blown away by the level of support of our platform, and in addition had largest Kazoo training following the conference.

Outside of the United States, our contributions have also taken off. Russia in fact, has garnered a very dedicated following. As of now, our top three 2015 contributors all hail from Russia.

We’re proud to announce that some of our Russian contributors of the Kazoo platform will be hosting Kazoo’s first independent community conference. Representatives from SIPLABS, Zebra Telecom, Telecom13, and OnNet will discuss how they’ve been utilizing the Kazoo platform. This will take place November 26th in Moscow. KAZOOMEETUP MOSCOW 2015 was conceived as a conference of users, developers, or people simply interested in our open telecommunications platform.

So join our Russian friends as they host their first Kazoo meetup, and learn about Kazoo’s open-source contributions. Click Here.

Accounts Manager - Infinite VoIP Account Scalability and Control

Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:21:12 -0800

The Accounts Manager App is a dynamic web portal providing multi-tenant functionality for worry-free scaling. Manage all of your accounts, and provide granular control to ensure customers have an enjoyable experience. Set limits for trunks, create call restrictions and manage credit balances – all within the App.

The Accounts Manager App has consolidated customer relationship management within a single User Interface. Accounts can be set up remotely, enabling you to sell across the continental United States. You no longer need to worry about logging into separate systems or figure out what client is on which platform.

What Accounts Manager Provides

Unified and Intuitive Interface

Add and edit new accounts and sub-accounts, monitor customers, select a carrier strategy, maintain service plans and restrictions - in one interface.

Simplifying Account Set-Up

Set up accounts for all of your customers. Create business account names, add the admin contact or manage the account yourself.

Set Limits and Create Call Restrictions

Create and set limits for your customers that include inbound, outbound, and two-way trunks. Set up call restrictions based on tolls, location, Emergency Dispatcher, and manage your customer’s credit balance.

Manage Permissions

Manage what your clients can and can’t view. This includes user and account settings, billing options, inbound and outbound trunking, and UI errors.

ThinQ - Least Cost Routing in the Cloud - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:20:59 -0700

The team at ThinQ show how to set up your routing profile, carrier selection, high volume traffic management, and LCR routing.

SIPLABS - Hard Rocking Kazoo - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:19:36 -0700

Founder and CEO Mikhail Rodionov discusses all the projects and code contributions that they have built for Kazoo over the past year.

Voxter - Building Value with Kazoo - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:16:34 -0700

The Voxter team discuss code contributions to the Kazoo platform, discuss how they are utilizing the platform, and give an in-depth demo of WhApps.

Telnexus - Quote to Cash – KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:12:18 -0700

Telnexus CEO Vernon Keenan discuss how he built the Managed Service Provider Telnexus from the ground up and the lessons he has learned in the process.

VirtualPBX - Back Office, Delivering Voice in a Competitive Market - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:04:37 -0700

In a competitive market, high quality voice services alone are rarely enough. Lon Baker speaks about the customer lifecycle, back office systems from Sales to CRM to deployment, and how to drive profitable growth while delivering an excellent customer experience.

Billing Data with Kazoo - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:00:59 -0700

Product Director Aaron Gunn discusses billing options for SaaS and IaaS customers. This includes CDR API, AMPQ, and integrating VoIP billing platforms.

Tuning Kazoo to 10,000 Handsets - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:58:09 -0700

People love to talk about scale. Some vendors pitch that their systems easily support 100,000 simultaneous calls, or 500 calls per second, etc. The reality is, in the real world, people’s behaviors vary and the feature sets they use can cut these numbers down quickly. For example, ask that same vendor claiming 100,000 simultaneous calls if it can be done while call recording, call statistics and other features are turned on at the same time, and you’ll usually get a very different, cautious, qualified response.

In this presentation, we’ll show you how to set up your infrastructure to support 100,000 simultaneous calls.

Detecting and Managing VoIP Fraud - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:45:59 -0700

This is an overview of VoIP fraud, different types of fraud and what telecommunication carriers are doing to combat this issue. Types of fraud include International / Premium Number Fraud, Impersonation / Social Engineering, Service Degradation / Denial of service. Presented by Mark Magnusson at KazooCon 2015.

The Next Wave - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:43:16 -0700

CTO Karl Anderson discusses the state of Kazoo. This includes integrations with FreeSWITCH, erlang, and Kamailio. Reseller milestones include the release of whitelabeling, webhooks, migration, carriers, debugging, account management and more.

Kamailio and VoIP Wild World

Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:34:52 -0700

Kamailio and VoIP Wild World from 2600Hz

Daniel Constantin Mierla discusses Kamailio and Kazoo integrations at KazooCon

Voxter - Building Value with Kazoo - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:30:25 -0700

Voxter - Building Value with Kazoo - KazooCon 2015 from 2600Hz

The Voxter team discuss code contributions to the Kazoo platform, discuss how they are utilizing the platform, and give an in-depth demo of WhApps

SIPLABS - Hard Rocking Kazoo - KazooCon 2015

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:27:38 -0700

SIPLABS - Hard Rocking Kazoo - KazooCon 2015 from 2600Hz

Founder and CEO Mikhail Rodionov discusses all the projects and code contributions that they have built for Kazoo over the past year.

Telnexus - Quote to Cash – KazooCon 2015

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 10:15:50 -0700

Telnexus - Quote to Cash – KazooCon 2015 from 2600Hz

Telnexus CEO Vernon Keenan discuss how he built the Managed Service Provider Telnexus from the ground up and the lessons he has learned in the process.

ThinQ - Least Cost Routing in the Cloud - KazooCon 2015

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:43:37 -0700

Least Cost Routing in the Cloud from 2600Hz

The ThinQ team discuss how to set up your routing profile, carrier selection, high volume traffic management, and LCR routing