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WiFi VoIP Gets Closer as FCC Seeks Public Comment on Net Neutrality Rules

Lonnie Lazar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:35:05 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission published an initial draft of proposed new rules (pdf) on Thursday that would, if approved, effectively make net neutrality the law of the land and open the door to WiFi VoIP as never before. The Draft Rules to Preserve the Free and Open Internet seek to codify non-binding policy guidelines in place [...]

Asterisk Makes Enterprise Inroads With Big Blue

Lonnie Lazar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:45:26 +0000

Digium and IBM announced a new partnership at Astricon Thursday that highlights both the Asterisk company’s increasing attention from the enterprise telecommunications sector as well as Big Blue’s growing appetite for SMB market share. The two companies announced the creation of an Asterisk-based phone system available now for the IBM Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is [...]

Voxilla’s FreePBX in a Cloud, Step-By-Step

Eric Chamberlain — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:30:17 +0000

Because of the interest in our series on VoIP and the open source Asterisk PBX using Amazon's convenient Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Voxilla released a pre-built virtual machine EC2 image using FreePBX, the popular graphical front end administration tool for Asterisk. In this post, we provide step-by-step instructions to install Voxilla's FreePBX in a Cloud.

FreePBX in a Cloud With a Click

Eric Chamberlain — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:07 +0000

Note: This post has been updated with a new FreePBX in a Cloud instance for Europe. Since making freely available Voxilla’s “pre-built” Asterisk installation for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (Asterisk on the Cloud With a Click), we’ve received many requests for a version that includes a graphical administration front end for the well-regarded open-source PBX. Answering the [...]

Asterisk on the Cloud With a Click

Eric Chamberlain — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:10:08 +0000

Our two-part tutorial explaining how to use VoIP (Part 1) and Asterisk (Part 2) in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) has garnered quite a bit of attention. But due to the time required to complete the many steps needed to get up and running, some of you have asked if it is possible to create a much simpler to install "pre-built" Asterisk installation. In short, yes it is. And we've done just that for you. Please read on.

Why You Don’t Know VoIP

Marc Copitelli — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Millions of people use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) every day. Skype is mentioned in conversation as casually as Twitter. So how come more people don’t understand what VoIP (and Skype) actually is? Broadly defined, VoIP is a number of transmission technologies that deliver voice communication over the internet or other IP networks. But, don’t expect [...]

Junction Networks Brings Deluxe Business Phone Toolset to OnSIP Hosted Service

Lonnie Lazar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:29:12 +0000

Junction Networks released a major upgrade to its flagship OnSIP hosted PBX phone service Thursday, adding browser-based IM, presence and phone status to one of the most compelling hosted VoIP services on the market today. A single browser window presents all users in an organization complete, one-look status on who in the company is “present,” which [...]

New FCC Rules Should Benefit VoIP Providers and Users

Lonnie Lazar — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:21:39 +0000

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski In a major policy address on the broad topic of “net neutrality” delivered Monday at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski described clearly his belief in the commission’s responsibility “to preserve a free and open Internet” – and proposed new rules that should be a boon to both [...]

Mobilize 09 Sees a Bright, Connected, Portable – and Profitable Future

Lonnie Lazar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:36 +0000

Anyone feeling blue about the economic downturn or at odds over political battles involving healthcare reform and financial stimulus would have done well to attend Mobilize 09 at San Francisco’s Mission Bay Conference Center Thursday, as dozens of presenting speakers/companies and hundreds of attendees embraced there a future that will be on-the-go and location aware, [...]

Big Still Looking Better as Mobile Giants Merge in UK

Lonnie Lazar — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:52:58 +0000

Image Credit: canonsnappper Mobile broadband consolidation rocked the UK Tuesday as Deutch Telecom and France Telecom announced plans to consolidate their British operations, according to a report in the New York Times. Pending approval of both companies’ shareholders and European regulators, the combined venture would become the largest mobile carrier in the UK, surpassing current leaders [...]