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Digium (Unofficially) Announces R-Series Redundancy Analog & PRI Appliances

October 27, 2011

Today, at a standing room only session presented by Digium's Jason Parker he discussed Digium's R-Series (R = Redundancy) appliance, which adds redundancy to analog & PRI trunks. It comes in two models - an analog model supporting 8 analog trunks and a PRI model supporting 8 PRIs. Interestingly, both will be priced at $995. I would have expected a premium on the 8 PRI model. The products will be generally available on December 9th of this year.

Posted in Asterisk, SIP, VoIP

Asterisk 10 - The Inside Story

October 27, 2011

At AstriCon, I sat down with Digium's Steve Sokol, Asterisk Marketing Director, to discuss the big Asterisk 10 release. It's quite the version leap from 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 , 1.6, to 1.8 - and now to 10.0. Ironically, I knocked Asterisk's small version increments when I spoke with Mark Spencer 1-3 years ago. I asked Mark why the version numbering scheme was still less than 2.0.

Posted in Asterisk, SIP, TMCnet, Unified Communications, Video Conferencing, VoIP

Digium's Mark Spencer Questions Panasonic About Android APKs/Apps

October 26, 2011

Digium's Mark Spencer who founded Asterisk and AstriCon has no qualms about asking speakers at his conference a question and keeping them on their toes. He asked Panasonic's Hiroshige "Hiro" Kamine a technical question about the Panasonic IP phones supporting Android APKs/apps, which Hiro had to defer to his Panasonic associate. I don't think Mark was playing 'gotcha', but rather his technical curiosity had to be satisfied. I know the feeling, Mark, I know the feeling... Watch the video:

Posted in Android, Asterisk, Google, SIP, TMCnet, VoIP

Mark Spencer, Allison Smith & the AstriCon Luncheon - Humor Alert!

October 26, 2011

Today's luncheon at the AstriCon conference was packed to the gills. I saw an open seat at Mark Spencer's table and some Digium folks. But the tables were so crammed close together that I couldn't figure out how to traverse the maze to their table. It didn't help that I was lugging a heavy laptop bag with iPad, laptop, and other gadgets.

Posted in Asterisk, TMCnet, VoIP

AstriCon VoIP Security - $400,000 toll fraud - YIKES!

October 26, 2011

During an AstriCon session on VoIP security the speaker discussed how easy it was to hack voicemail PINs, but not to listen to your voice messages but to initiate "call backs" using spoofed CallerIDs. Essentially, this leverages the "call back" feature that many voicemail systems have to call back the person that left the message.

He then asked the audience for any real world examples of how they were hacked. Several volunteered their stories. I captured one of them where their Elastix server was hacked - due to their parent company locking them out of the server and not updating /patching the server. This resulted in the hackers racking up toll fraud (Korean calls) of $400,000!

Posted in Asterisk, TMCnet, VoIP

Switchvox 5.5 - Sneak Peek!

October 26, 2011

I caught the tail half of Digium's Tristan Barnum's AstriCon session. Tristan Barnum is the Director of Product Marketing for Switchvox at Digium. In her AstriCon session, Tristan stressed how she never ever tells what Switchvox is up to and certainly not what features to expect.

"Switchvox 5.5 is due out the first quarter of the year [2012].

Posted in Asterisk, SIP, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

AstriCon Video Snippet of an AstriCon Session

October 25, 2011

For those that couldn't make AstriCon, thought I'd share this brief ~5 minute snippet of the 1st AstriCon session on Tuesday 10/25/11. Gives you some flavor of the awesome attendance and a little bit of the show content. I captured it using my new iPhone 4S, so it should play in HD (720p & 1080p) if you select that option in the YouTube video clip. The speaker is Paul Belanger, a software developer at Digium.

Posted in Asterisk, VoIP

360° Panoramic of Astricon Exhibit Floor

October 25, 2011

Here's a 360° panoramic of the Astricon exhibit floor taken at 1:54pm today. The show floor opens at 5pm today, so this is a sneak peak! The Astricon exhibits are still being setup in this panoramic. I wanted to take this before people show up and mess up the stitching algorithm due to motion. As it is, the exhibitors setting up were wondering what was so interesting about photographing the ceiling. I missed one small spot which shows up in black. Remember to use your mouse to navigate around. Enjoy!

Posted in Asterisk, VoIP

Digium's Shaun Ruffell, Linux Kernel Developer Speaking at Astricon

October 25, 2011

Posted in Asterisk, VoIP

AstriCon - Panoramic Image of 1st Session

October 25, 2011

I captured a panoramic image of the first session taking place at AstriCon in the Westin Westminster hotel in Denver, Colorado. It's an interactive panoramic, so use your mouse to move around. I didn't do a 360 degree panoramic since attendees were looking at me wondering what the hell I was doing in the middle of a session holding my camera in the air and rotating it around in small angle increments.

Posted in Asterisk, TMCnet, Unified Communications, VoIP

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