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One of my favorite blogs had a post today about the merging of the emerging with the ordinary in the voice world. For a few years now, we have all been touting the promise of Voice 2.0, the death of the PSTN and the revolution that is upon us, yet to date, this new wave [...]

Our team at Big in Japan (a social software company) has been enamored with Asterisk since early 2005 when we launched our social podcasting application for FX Network’s hit series Nip/Tuck.

Benjamin P. Sayers, CEO of VoIP Supply, has been elected to infoTech Niagara’s Board of Directors. This is his first term on the board of InfoTech Niagara.

Being far away from home for a long period of time is a trying experience; leaving your life behind and relocating away from your support systems – family and friends – is even more so. The first three months of living in Silicon Valley after moving here from Israel could easily be the toughest I [...]

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Doug Mohney over at FierceVoIP…. who consistently put out some of the most interesting and relevant content in the industry….has a story this morning concerning the impending demise of the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network….for the uninitiated, think telephone poles and wires). Doug makes reference to another opinion piece from Daniel Berninger at GigaOm that [...]

VoIP Supply was named to the Fast Track 50, the 50 fastest growing companies in Western New York, by Buffalo’s Business First newspaper.

Most of the processing in a VoIP system goes on behind the technology curtain, often with no warm and fuzzy interface. On the other side of the counter, the people actually using the phones have the most important need: usability.

Whether on the road or on the phone, I made friends with whoever I worked and shared desk space with. When I was young, seasoned sales reps showed me the ropes. Today, I always try to make time for the new sales reps who are “cutting their teeth,” so to speak.

One of the more exciting (that is if you are a hardware nut) product releases in the last few weeks has been from Polycom with their IP 670 IP phone. The Polycom IP 670 is what I call a true “next-Gen” IP phone. Why? The Polycom IP 670 comes jam-packed with C level goodness; Polycom’s [...]

Linksys has a new, improved WiFi SIP Phone set to arrive shortly, and you’ll find it at VoIPSupply first! The WIP310 supports 802.11b/g and SIP, and offers a hi-res color LCD display. The WIP310 is service provider friendly and supports mass provisioning. Linksys promises a user-friendly configuration interface and easy network setup using WiFi [...]

Some readers have suggested we mix it up a bit. This is the first of a series of alternative interviews we’ll be conducting in the coming months. How long have you been in VoIP world? I have been active in the Linux community since around May of 1996. I was actually created by Larry Ewing [...]

Our next woman in VoIP came to know the industry through a family connection…her husband! Liz and Ari Rabban are a power VoIP couple, deeply involved in the industry since 1997. Liz manages the marketing of Phone.com, handling all the promotion of their virtual office systems as well as VoIP for business and home.

The Asterisk PCI Hardware War rages on with several vendors in the fray including Digium, Sangoma, Pika Technologies, Rhino and a host of Asia based OEM clones. Canadian DSP manufacturer Octasic could be accused of Asterisk War Profiteering, having signed exclusive deals with many of these vendor combatants to provide DSP chip components for EC [...]

Two words, Gas prices. I won’t comment on those two words, in the interest of keeping this brief. Around here we’re paying roughly $4.25/gallon for the cheap stuff. I also won’t get into the Global Warming debate. A little CO2 never hurt anybody, but hopefully we can all agree that 411,000,000 [...]