similar to: Friday Aug 21st @ 12 noon EDT: VoIP Users Conference, More Wideband Madness

Hello, In the run up to Astricon [ http://astricon.net ] we'll be talking today to Tim Panton about his experiences with SfA. You're welcome to join in! Speaking of Tim, you can join the conference in W I D E B A N D at http://api.phonefromhere.com/gateway/zdx.xsql?conference=200901 - come early, channels are limited, seriously! 12 Noon EDT today is http://tr.im/nextvuc in your time

Hi all, In about 4 hours from this writing, the G.722 conference bridge will be brought up, the Talkshoe G.711 also, so you can call in via SIP, PSTN or Skype (experimental) http://vuc.me for all the gritty details IRC #voip-users-conference anytime today We'll also be talking about hosted PBX systems and what they might need to bring telephone into not the 20th, but the 21st century. It

Hey, This week I return from AstriEurop and I'm lucky because I left yesterday, many of my Asterisk friends are stranded because of the air and rail strikes that got worse today. I will mention a few things I think are interesting from my meetings there and hope a few others will make it and share their experiences. in particular, Mark Spencer's keynote held a surprise or two. Also, we

Hi all, What is Bufferbloat? http://gettys.wordpress.com/bufferbloat-faq/ Maybe this kind of discussion will bring out the John Todds of this world, I can only hope and dream: Bufferbloat: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2011/bufferbloat/ Call in and talk to Jim Gettys, who co-developed X Window System and was a part of HTTP/1.1 - this is someone we'll all be proud to meet, and you can

Hi, I'm excited to announce that the guys from AG Projects are stopping by for a beer tomorrow on VoIP Users Conference, aka VUC. You should already be familiar with their excellent multi-platform SIP client, Blink (http://icanblink.com) While Adrian and Sa?l enjoy a few exotic brews with us, they'll also be telling us about SylkServer: - creation and delivery of rich multimedia

Already Friday, the week went by in a Flash. If you haven't yet registered for a free Sipgate DID, I suggest you go do so. If you are in, or interested in the business, Sipgate has a few tricks up their sleeves and you should be aware of them. Someone from Sipgate will be joining the conference, which begins at 12 Noon EDT (9AM PDT, 10 Mountain, 11 Central, 5PM UK, 6 Central Europe) ZipDX

Hi all, You're welcome as always to join the talk on the VoIP Users Conference, VUC for short. VUC began as the "Asterisk Users Conference" but for obvious reasons, we changed the name in the first year, although Digium was our sponsor for three years. We still have plenty of you who are asterisk users and developers on this our fifth year. Come on by, listen, talk ro text on IRC.

Today, Chris Matthieu, Founder & CEO of GetVocal, entered the cloud-based communications market in February, with its launch of Teleku. Teleku is a new cloud-based telecom service that allows Web developers to build and host phone applications that answer inbound calls and initiate outbound calls, interact with Web applications, and send/receive SMS text messages! Chris, who you may have

By popular request, we've convinced someone from the VoIP Abuse Project to join us tomorrow at noon on VUC. I think many of you will be interested in this topic, so please come by, join in and ask questions. http://vuc.me for all connection info and links to VoIP Abuse Project A couple of other features and announcements are scheduled after that segment, including an Astricon update and

Hi, If I was going to post this as an iPhone-only SIP client, I'd expect loud booing and hissing, but Media5 mobile SIP client is available for the Symbian S60 platform, too, or will be shortly. Interested? To join us and hear about Media5 form Pascal Dore, see http://vuc.me Speaking of mobile, if any of you know the people who are developing the SIP client for Android, we'd love to

Friday we'll be hearing about SIP Communicator Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client. SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour, IRC and a whole lot of other useful features. Open Source / Free Software, and is freely available

Hi, Lots of VoIP, SIP and Asterisk-related discussion and some free phones and Polycom software today, join us at the usual place: http://www.voipusersconference.org Call sip:200901 at login.zipdx.com Skype:vuc.me (via Skype for Asterisk and PhonefromHere.com) Listen Live 16khz mp3 Stream: http://vuc.li/mp3stream None of the above will work until about 15 minutes before. The mp3 stream goes

Hi all, You may have heard yesterday that Adhearsion and Voxeo have created a new baby, Voxeo Labs. From our (non-biz) point of view, I'd recommend following the blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com/ to see how what they do might be of interest to you and your asterisk/voip activities, commercial or private. Since I myself know little about what this all means, I've invited a lot of bright

Hi, Like me, some of you probably remember Jim as one of the pioneers along with Leif and Jarod. These guys "wrote the book", literally. Jim is our guest tomorrow and he'll be talking about system building, among other things. We always have a good time AND get stuff done on the Conference so come by and join us: Silently, on IRC: #voip-users-conference (freenode.net) - stop by

Hi, I met Michael Iedema of the Askozia pbx project at ANOOMA (ANOOMA is the Cannes Festival of the Asterisk world) and begged him to take time off from porting Askozia from FreeBSD to linux to tell us about his project and the problems of porting as well. Hope you'll all be able to stop by and lmisten or download or stream the recordings. We are having a lot of people call in on widenabd

Nir Simionovich is about to become a father. He will be joining our conference at 12 Noon EDT today from the Maternity Ward to talk about Amazon EC2 cloud computing with Asterisk. Nir gave a very good presentation on this at AMOOCON a few weeks ago (see http://www.amoocon.de for more on that). The advantage here though is that he'll be live with us for your questions. All the details on how

Hi, We're pleased have a 25-year telephony veteran with us tomorrow, Aswath Rao. Aswath maintains that "Trapezoidal VoIP is Evil". Join us and ask questions, make comments, argue about geeky details... and maybe win a Gigaset S675IP SIP/DECT g722-capable phone with an additional handset. Those of us who have these phones like them a lot. All dial in info is here: http://VUC.me -

The subject of tomorrow's VoIP Users Conference will be mobile VoIP. If you have any interest, please join us. I myself am tesing a bunch of iPod applications to use with all the usual suspects: OnSIP, Sipgate, Gizmo, Skype, your asterisk box, etc. Details for joining the call are are at http://VUC.me or http://VoipUsersConference.org IRC: #voip-users-conference on Freenode.net See you

Topic: Phono and Phono SDK, an exciting development you can read about at http://phono.com You can learn all about the technical aspects of Phono and the SDK Friday with Chris Matthieu, but here are a couple of interesting implementations that don't require much effort to show a proof-of-concept: 1) There is already a WordPress plugin that literally allows you to add a button on your

Quick reminder before Astricon (from which we will be reporting from live): Tomorrow's guest will be VoIP author Alex Robar. Alex has worked with open source telephony solutions for the past four years, and has collaborated on the development and growth of an international Asterisk-based VoIP peering network. His book is FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions and we'll be chatting with