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Hi, I hope everyone will have a joyous holiday time. If you happen to find yourself at loose ends on Friday after the eat and drink fest that many of us will be privileged to enjoy Thursday, come and talk with us about Skype for Asterisk. Steve Sokol, who's in charge of the beta for this module at Digium, has courageously agreed to give us a report on how it's coming along. Spread this

Interesting offering, free from Twilio, this is php you install on your own server to build a brandable "VBX". Worth checking out! Listen to tomorrow for more about this and talk to lead engineer or Twilio CEO if you have any questions; sip:200901 at login.zipdx.com or Skype:vuc.me IRC: #vuc on Freenode.net or http://vuc.me/irc Info about VUC is htp://vuc.me Best, /r

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 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

This should be interesting, a double header Friday at 12 Noon EDT, session 2 at 1PM EDT. 1) Pascal Dor?, Media5corp. Pascal will talk about what they've been up to in the year since his last visit. Thanks to the Asterisk mailing list and VoIP community, their Media5fone was able to fix its g722 implementation. I like their product a lot and used it extensively on my old iPod Touch to make and

Hi all, Friday at 12 Noon EDT, we'll be talking to Emil Ivov of Jitsi.org (formerly SIP Communicator) and Thiago Rocha Camargo (of Nimbuzz) about Jabber, something the Asterisk community is becoming more interested in by the day. Join us to learn more about Jabber and SIP or to share your knowledge and experience. As always, the VUC discussion includes people from very diverse backgrounds, so

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, 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

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

Hi, Our guest today is Steven Johnson, President of Ingate Systems. We'll talk with him about the changing role of Session Border Controllers and E-SBC and how this hardware facilitates the use of SIP in "difficult" conditions, about general SIP security considerations, and why you might need such devices on your network. VUC is every Friday at 12 Noon EDT, 9AM PDT (ouch, I'll

Hi, Barring WW (wifi woes), I will be "broadcasting" live from the HD Communications Summit this Friday. Usually we begin at 12 Noon EST but we may start earlier so please check the site, IRC, Twitter or Facebook for the exact start time. If any of you are planning to be there, please email me if you'd care to have coffee or something stronger. Also, if you happen to be in the

Hello, This Friday March 4th is the 307th VoIP Users Conference. In a few weeks, we'll be starting our 5th year of this weekly live event that began life as the Asterisk Users Conference. We'd love to have you join on on our call with this week's guest OnSIP.com by connecting via SIP:200901 at login.zipdx.com Skype:vuc.me PSTN: +1 567 252 2286 iNum: +883 5100 123 94882 Tex backchat

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

To celebrate three years of the VoIP Users Conference, we're doing a 24-hour VoIP conference call today. Details are at http://voipathon.org IRC: #vuc on Freenode.net SIP: voipathon at vuc.onsip.com - Enter 22622# and your PIN# if you have no PIN you can listen using 1# iNum - +883 51007 039 9924 PSTN: +1 724 444 7444 again, 22622#1# or PIN# if you have one. Those of you in the

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

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

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

Today, sessions 320-321 of the VoIP Users Conference will take place at the usual time, 12 Noon Eastern [ http://vuc.me/next for local times ] We'll be talking to Sangoma's Frederic Dickey about NetBorder 4.0. You can download or watch his accompanying slide presentation here: http://vuc.li/Sangoma-2011 Next, Pascal Dor?, mVoIP chief over at Media5 Corporation will talk about the

Hi, Few subjects cause as many arguments as "which SIP client works best?" on IRC #asterisk, voip forums, and probably the -users mailing list. I have tried most of the SIP clients available in the last 5 years, both with Asterisk and other platforms such as OnSIP.com, IConnectHere.com, ZipDX.com and the venerable old FWD (in the days when that almost worked). Speaking of ZipDX, we

Our guest today has a long and interesting background in network and VoIP technologies as well as having been at the head of Digium's product management: Bill "@beelinebill" Miller. To join us and hear (and talk to) Bill, see http://vuc.me You can call sip:200901 at login.zipdx.com in g722 wideband (or g711) Jump on IRC #vuc channel There are a number of other ways to connect