Voice Over IP (VoIP)

Note:  Very interesting technology but I do not even want to think about possible health effects.  If they can light a bulb (Most likely LED Light Bulb) across the room then I would want to see what effect that could... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

The Associated Press is reporting that calls made overseas from a hijacked FEMA phone system racked up a $12,000 USD bill. The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed the FEMA phone system was cracked, and the calls all took place... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Most Cowetans who call 911 from their cell phones don't have to worry about location errors such as the one that may have contributed to the recent death of a woman in north Fulton County. When a call comes... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

IPC Systems, a provider of communications solutions to financial services firms, announced today that Bank of Beijing has chosen the IQ/MAX, IPC's voice over IP-enabled desktop tool, for its trading floor. With its main focus on transitioning to VoIP technology in... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

An Ontario woman is trying to obtain class action status on a lawsuit against Rogers Wireless, alleging that the cell phone provider is pocketing more than its due in 911 service fees. Patricia Robson’s suit alleges no more than 10... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Note:  Looks like the integration is complete.  Good thing Cisco makes good hardware. Cisco appears to be nudging ever closer to dropping the Linksys brand. Today it announces that it has combined the engineering teams for all its SMB products, forming... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

General Dynamics C4 Systems has been awarded a $2.8 million contract by the National Security Agency (NSA) to add a new Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) feature to the Sectera vIPer Universal Secure Phone.  The new feature, called "PSTN Connect,"... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Digium, the Asterisk Company, recently announced that Brian Aker from Sun Microsystems/MySQL and Stefan Öberg from Skype are slated as keynote speakers for AstriCon ‘08. AstriCon, the world's largest, most informative gathering of expert developers and users of the popular... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Polycom has made its wideband Siren 7 codec for HD voice available without a licensing fee in an effort to accelerate HD voice adoption and demonstrate the company's commitment to open standards. The royalty-free licensing offer is an extension... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Digium, creators and primary corporate sponsors of the popular Asterisk open source telephony platform, and Cepstral, a speech technology company, today announced that Digium now offers "Allison voice" text-to-speech software. The Asterisk-based interactive voice response (IVR) application, created by Cepstral... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

The Asterisk development team has released new versions of three libraries used with Asterisk. They are:libpri-1.2.8:This release contains a number of bugfixes that had been unreleased for months, along with clarification of the licensing of the source code. The change... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

The Asterisk development team has released new versions of three libraries used with Asterisk. They are:libpri-1.2.8:This release contains a number of bugfixes that had been unreleased for months, along with clarification of the licensing of the source code. The change... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Toshiba today announced the launch of its new Strata CIX™1200 VoIP business communication system, bringing Toshiba quality, reliability and affordability to medium-to-large companies.  Supporting up to 1,152 ports, the Strata CIX1200 is designed for 200 to 1,000 users and delivers... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Polycom is a name synonymous with audio and video conferencing solutions and it’s a fairly safe bet that if you look in the board room of any large company you stand a good chance of seeing one of their products.... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Editor's Note:  Here are a couple thoughts I have about this.   First, you should always assume that every  major application out there mostly likely have some sort of remote access for governmental agencies to monitor criminals.  This is not paranoia,... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Kaplan announced the launch of three new online Cisco certification programs designed to provide students with the knowledge to seek employment in the high-demand Information Technology field. "According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Information Technology is the fastest growing... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30.Both of these releases include fixes for two security issues. Both of these issues affect users of the IAX2 channel driver. For more details on these vulnerabilities, see the published... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base.  The event will be hosted at the Renaissance Glendale... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

Talk of AT&T cutting back on its capital expenditures for this year have hit Cisco's stock as well as the prospects for other telecom equipment vendors. Credit Suisse this week downgraded Cisco to neutral from outperform on reports that AT&T... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/

US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS... Dal http://www.asteriskvoipnews.com/