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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

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, 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

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.

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

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 -

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

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, 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:

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 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

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

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

http://vuc.me Kamailio, Open SER and Asterisk walk into a bar... The bartender is Alex Balashov, someone whose posts I have long admired on this list. Alex has agreed to take us through the following areas: - Relationship of Kamailio to OpenSER project history. - What is Kamailio/OpenSER? - SIP proxy - SIP server (for certain purposes, such as registrar, presence user agent, etc.) -

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

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 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