Telephony

Double-NAT Blues: Tackling Asterisk’s Thorniest Problems

Double-NAT Blues: Tackling Asterisk’s Thorniest Problems

Monday, August 20, 2018

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Whether you’re new to VoIP technology or an Old Timer, nothing is quite as frustrating as wrestling with one-way audio and no audio on SIP calls either because of poorly designed NAT-based routers or poorly implemented SIP ALG solutions on low-end residential routers. To make matters worse, you get to deal with calls originating behind not one, but two, NAT-based routers neither of which complies with the basic SIP Rules of the Road. In a perfect world, SIP and RTP… Read More ›

Now Serving: The Incredible PBX 13-13 Whole Enchilada

Now Serving: The Incredible PBX 13-13 Whole Enchilada

Saturday, August 18, 2018

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We’re delighted to introduce the bells and whistles for Incredible PBX® 13-13. We’ve taken a slightly different approach with this release. Instead of getting the Whole Enchilada out of the box, you now have a choice. You start with Incredible PBX 13-13 LEAN on the recommended CentOS® 6.10 platform. This gets you a fully-functioning PBX with the latest Asterisk® 13 and most of the FreePBX® 13 GPL modules. This release incorporates NAF’s new GVSIP interface to Google Voice. You can… Read More ›

Introducing the GPL Toolkit for FreePBX and Incredible PBX

Introducing the GPL Toolkit for FreePBX and Incredible PBX

Friday, August 17, 2018

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We’ve been scratching our head for a good way to commemorate Micro$oft’s $7.5 billion purchase of GitHub which has served as the linchpin of the open source development community for many years. We’ll leave it to others and history to judge whether this was a good idea or not. What we came up with was a GPL Toolkit for Incredible PBX 13-13 that makes it child’s play to upgrade FreePBX® GPL modules in our Incredible PBX® 13-13 offerings for CentOS/SL,… Read More ›

Desktop Dream Machine: It’s Incredible PBX for VirtualBox

Desktop Dream Machine: It’s Incredible PBX for VirtualBox

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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If you’re new to the VoIP world or just getting started with Google’s latest Google Voice creation, then we have a one minute setup solution today that doesn’t require you to buy anything ever. You can use almost any desktop computer you already own to bring up the VirtualBox® edition of Incredible PBX® in less than 60 seconds. Take another minute or two to install a Google Voice trunk, and you’ll have free calling in the U.S. and Canada until… Read More ›

The Triple Crown: Google Voice Returns on All Platforms

The Triple Crown: Google Voice Returns on All Platforms

Monday, August 6, 2018

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If you’ve been enjoying this summer’s wild roller coaster ride on the Google Voice train, then your worst nightmare is almost over… until the next time. What we all hopefully learned from Google’s cavalier sledgehammer-approach to telephony is DON’T DEPEND ON GOOGLE. Enjoy the free ride once again but make some alternative arrangements for the next time Google gets a harebrained idea as stupid as this one. Google’s idea of an "open platform" is proprietary everything even down to the… Read More ›

Happy Days: Google Voice GVSIP No Longer a One Trunk Pony

Happy Days: Google Voice GVSIP No Longer a One Trunk Pony

Monday, July 9, 2018

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July 20 NEWS FLASH: This article has been superseded. Google now has discontinued support of their XMPP interface to Google Voice so the latest CentOS/SL versions of Incredible PBX 13-13 (including the Incredible PBX ISO) now incorporate NAF’s GVSIP interface to Google Voice. You can read all about it here. What has changed is you now add unlimited Google Voice trunks from the command line by running /root/gvsip-naf/install-gvsip. You can delete trunks by running /root/gvsip-naf/del-trunk. Once one or more trunks… Read More ›

Let’s Celebrate: Google Voice GVSIP Comes to Raspberry Pi

Let’s Celebrate: Google Voice GVSIP Comes to Raspberry Pi

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

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We introduced NAF’s new GVSIP implementation of Google Voice for CentOS 6 and Incredible PBX® 13-13 last week, and today we again have something to celebrate for those in the United States that enjoy free calling. We’re pleased to introduce the GVSIP-NAF add-on for Incredible PBX for the Raspberry Pi 3. You can upgrade any current platform, or you can install a fresh image from here that already includes the GVSIP upgrade. The upgrade procedure takes about 45 minutes, and… Read More ›

A New Beginning: Google Voice Joins the Asterisk PJSIP Club

A New Beginning: Google Voice Joins the Asterisk PJSIP Club

Monday, June 25, 2018

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We weren’t sure we would ever be writing this column. And, if it weren’t for @NAF of DSL Reports fame, it might very well have been years before a SIP-compatible version of Google Voice was available for Asterisk®. We really can’t overstate the scope and enormity of his accomplishment. If you look at NAF’s code additions to Asterisk, you’ll understand why. We would hasten to add that Bill Simon of Simonics was the pioneer in getting Google’s code to work… Read More ›

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