Telephony

Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Lessons Learned: An Update on Our Server Outage

Friday, May 17, 2013

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It’s been a busy couple of days following the double whammy of two RAID drive failures on Wednesday morning. We wanted to provide an interim update on where things stand. We share a dedicated server with a couple of other folks. The server is managed and maintained by WestNIC out of New York but physically resides in a data center in Dallas. Even with state-of-the-art hardware, things go wrong. And a dual drive failure made things worse, much worse. The… Read More ›

The SIPaholic's Dream Come True: Introducing Anveo Direct

The SIPaholic’s Dream Come True: Introducing Anveo Direct

Monday, May 6, 2013

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We’re incredibly happy with the current list of providers that we recommend to PBX in a Flash™ users for VoIP trunking. At the top of our list is Vitelity, a leading VoIP provider that has been a major contributor to the Nerd Vittles and PBX in a Flash projects for many years. But, as often happens, one of our gurus on the PIAF Forum comes up with a terrific discovery that we just can’t wait to pass along. This week… Read More ›

It's Baaaaack: Skype Returns to PBX in a Flash with Asterisk 11 and FreeSwitch

It’s Baaaaack: Skype Returns to PBX in a Flash with Asterisk 11 and FreeSwitch

Friday, April 26, 2013

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It’s been a long road, but we finally have a reliable Skype™ implementation for Asterisk® 11. Ironically, it uses components from ArchLinux™ as well as FreeSwitch™. But, hey, it works! It sounds great. And it lets you talk (for free) to over a half billion of your closest friends around the world. So today we present a Skype solution that works with a full-featured PBX. It can run on any Windows®, Mac®, or Linux® Desktop using the PIAF-Green™ Virtual Machine… Read More ›

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.3

The Definitive VoIP Quick Start Guide: Introducing PBX in a Flash 2.0.6.4.3

Friday, April 19, 2013

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Each time we release a new version of PBX in a Flash™, I’m reminded of one of my favorite childhood books and one of the best mottos of all time: "I Think I Can!" You can’t really appreciate what goes into an open source product like PBX in a Flash until you try doing it yourself. The sad part is we and the CentOS™ development team are part of a dwindling few non-commercial entities that still are in the open… Read More ›

The 5-Minute PBX: PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for Windows, Mac, or Linux

The 5-Minute PBX: PIAF-Green Virtual Machine for Windows, Mac, or Linux

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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In our never-ending trek to build the Perfect PBX™, we have another installment for you today featuring the just released PBX in a Flash™ 2.0.6.4.3 with a CentOS® 6.4 LAMP stack (32-bit or 64-bit), Asterisk® 11.3, and FreePBX® 2.11. Once you download the image, you can have a turnkey PBX running under VirtualBox® on almost any desktop computer in less than 5 minutes. We’re not talking about a crippled telephony platform with limited functionality. What you’ll have is the same… Read More ›

Introducing The Eighth Wonder: Incredible PBX 3.11 for the $35 Raspberry Pi

Introducing The Eighth Wonder: Incredible PBX 3.11 for the $35 Raspberry Pi

Monday, March 18, 2013

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It’s been a wild ride with the $35 Raspberry Pi®. In addition to our tens of thousands of Happy Campers around the world, we now have nearly a dozen friends in our little neighborhood using a Raspberry Pi as their primary phone system. Can you believe it? The Raspberry Pi Foundation has already sold more than a million of these devices. If you’re new to the party, imagine squeezing a 700 mHz ARM processor with 512MB of RAM, 2 USB… Read More ›

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Windows 8 Touchscreen Roundup

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Windows 8 Touchscreen Roundup

Monday, March 11, 2013

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We began our Windows 8 adventure a few weeks ago with a look at Microsoft’s promising Surface Pro. As much as we liked the concept, there were a few too many compromises for us, and we ended up returning the machine. The deal breaker really was figuring out what to do with the awkward keyboard when you wanted to use the Surface Pro as a tablet. The connector sticks out of the end of the keyboard so there would always… Read More ›

WebRTC: Asterisk Joins the Brave New World of Real Time Communications

WebRTC: Asterisk Joins the Brave New World of Real Time Communications

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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This week we’ll be wading into the world of real time communications and the Asterisk® 11 implementation of WebRTC, a JavaScript API that makes it easy to build click-to-call systems and softphone interfaces using nothing more than a web page. To simplify the task of creating an Asterisk 11/WebRTC platform, we’ve created a free virtual appliance for you that can be deployed in a matter of minutes on any Windows®, Mac®, Linux® or Solaris® desktop using Oracle’s VirtualBox®. In producing… Read More ›

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