http://www.voip-forum.com About Open Source and Open Standards in IP Communications Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:02:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Garret Smith writes some thoughtful words about WiFi phones in his blog:Infonetics Research released a report that showed WiFi ip phone sales increase 60% in 2007, with 682,000 units were sold worldwide. The report cited “increased vendor support” as the primary reason for the growth. [...]While some people seem to like WiFi phones, they aren’t for ... http://www.voip-forum.com/products/2008-04/agree-wifi-phones-suck/ I've worked with Asterisk many years. I started in 2002 when I was working with a service provider here in Sweden, then co-founded Astricon, started the Asterisk Bootcamp trainings and the dCAP. Many years of working with Asterisk, but almost always in combination with a SIP proxy (mainly SER/OpenSER) and ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-03/building-pbx-asterisk-wow/ Asterisk 1.4 not only adds features to your PBX, it also adds enhanced voice quality for VoIP. The new and improved jitterbuffer implementation covers all RTP-based VoIP channels. Previoiusly, only the IAX2 channel driver had a jitter buffer implementation. http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/discover-asterisk-14-jitterbuffers/ The Asterisk project has a very strict policy in regards to backwards compatibility. Unless we can't find another solution, we're not allowed to remove a function between releases. A configuration for Asterisk 2.4 should work in the next release. In order to be able to change functionality we warn users ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/updating-to-1-4/ Asterisk 1.4 delivers many new features. In regards to call state subscriptions, there are many news for you. Call state subscriptions are what makes the lamps blink on your phone when your collegue's phone rings. In 1.4, you can make it blink based on activity in parking lots and meetme ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/sip-subscriptions/ Asterisk 1.4 introduces a new level of Jabber integration, developed by Matthew O'Gorman at Digium. The Asterisk Open Source PBX integrates with Jabber/XMPP in many ways. http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/xmpp/ I am proud to report that Alec Saunders report  that Infoworld reports that Yahoo is going to test OpenID. This is an important step for OpenID. I believe OpenID is a very good example of not trying to solve the whole puzzle with one solution, but build a small building ... http://www.voip-forum.com/security/2008-01/yahoo-act-openid-server-alec-saunders-log/ For a long time, we have needed a platform for managing feature requests - things that the community or developers would like to see in Asterisk. We used to have a "feature request" category in the bug tracker, but there was no good way to handle them in the bug ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/asterisk-brainstorming-platform-asteriskideasorg/ Happy New Year, Asterisk community! During 2007 we accomplished a lot. We polished Asterisk 1.4 to a new state of readiness for production. We moved Asterisk 1.2 into no-maintenance mode, something I think we might have to reconsider after a discussion on the Asterisk-users mailing list. And we did not release ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2008-01/happy-year-asterisk-community/ During the last week, I've been discussion upgrading Asterisk on the asterisk-user's mailing list. I asked the community on what the problems was with upgrading to 1.4, asking for success stories as well as reasons not to upgrade. I've learned a lot from the feedback.As a developer, I spend too ... http://www.voip-forum.com/asterisk/2007-12/feedback-upgrading-asterisk/