similar to: Asterisk and VoIP Users Friday Meeting

Hi, This week we are pleased to welcome Andy Abramson (http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/) as our guest. Andy is one of the most avid observers of the world of VoIP, from Asterisk and its variations to all kinds of ramifications of VoIP. I'm sure we'll pass a lot of the VoIP News in review tomorrow at the usual time and place: Friday 18 Sept at 12 Noon EDT, your local time:

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 -

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 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

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

Hi, We had a last-minute cancellation from Vivox for today's conference. It happens that someone suggested a guest idea, Howler Technologies CTO Jay Fenton, who agreed to join the call from the road. Anything you want to know about transcoding to and from g729 is out topic for the first hour. My pal David Duffet knows this technology well and has kindly signed in to help guide us through this

Tomorrow, Friday August 21st at noon EDT, we'll be on the rampage again with the VoIP Users Conference, much of which concerns Asterisk and the Asterisk community. We've covered a lot of ground in the past 2 1/2 years, and had a lot of great guest presenters. In the meantime, there's a new gadget to test at PhoneFromHere.com, you can hear the wideband demo on the ZipDX.com bridge:

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.

Hi, Our guest this Friday is Himanshu Dwivendi, author of the book Hacking VoIP. You're welcome to come discuss it with us on the conference. Find your local time by going to http://vuc.me/next - the conference begins a little before 12 Noon Eastern Time. VUC has an IRC channel #vuc on Freenode.net and uses Skype for Asterisk to allow connections to listen and/or speak. SIP g722 : 200901 at

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

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

Hi all, Today's jam-packed sessions include the security theme for the first hour or so, then a debate about hosted vs local VoIP services. Hour one guests are Sjur Usken, telecom consultant who has been working with VoIP since 2002 and helping companies migrate to an all IP world and Sandro Gauci, a security researcher and consultant based in, author of VoIP security tools SIPVicious,

Every week we try to get guests with ideas, products and services you haven't had time to check out to come and talk about what they're doing. Tomorrow, Pika Technologies will be with us. Friday, March 7that 12:00 PM (Eastern US) 9AM PST, 5PM GMT *** Call (724) 444-7444 or SIP:123 at 66.212.134.192 *** After the call connects, enter the conf: 22622# and your_PIN# (or 1# if you

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

On this weeks VUC call we will collectively be our own guests. That is, we'd like to know what was the big issue that impacted YOU in 2010? All opinions welcome. Here are a few things to get you thinking in advance: - Apple's Antenna-gate - Asterisk 1.8 Launches - Amazon EC2 as a DOS platform - Cisco launched UMI video conference device - More HDVoice capable phones - Skype Outage - VoIP

Morning! This may be the "day of the dead" in some regions, but we expect the usual lively discussion today at 9AM PDT, 11 Central, 12 Noon EDT, 4PM UK and Portugal, 5PM Paris, $deity-forsaken hour down under. This Sunday, I believe the USA falls back to Standard time. Future VUC are still at 12 Noon EST. Info site: http://voipusersconference.org PSTN (724) 444-7444 enter 22622# 1#

Hi, Alistair Cunningham of Integrics was our guest yesterday. We talked about Integrics new product Geons, a suite of software for building large-scale distributed enterprise applications. The recorded session is now available here: http://www.voipusersconference.org/2010/geons/ The extremely rare John Todd was sighted (and heard) at this event. If you are developing a product or service

Hi, December 5th, 1999 was the initial release of Asterisk by Mark Spencer. We'll be celebrating this by gathering as usual at 12 Noon Eastern (9AM Pacific, 10 MST, 11 Central, 5PM UK and Western EU) for the VoIP Users Conference. You can get all the dial in information at http://VoipUsersConference.org including info on a SipAddHeader() kludge to avoid DTMF problems. IRC is Freenode.net

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, Plenty to talk about today. Dave Nelsen, a founder of Talkshoe, has a lot of experience in the telecommunications space and he joins us today to chat about its current state, conferencing and whatever else comes to mind. So we have a meta conference aout conferencing, it won't be the first time :) You probably saw John Todd's message on one of the lists: Skype for Asterisk is in open