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Here We Go Again: Getting Ready for the Next Google Voice Train Wreck

Here We Go Again: Getting Ready for the Next Google Voice Train Wreck

Monday, June 3, 2013

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Self-inflicted wounds are nothing new in the technology business, but Google spent much of last week working hard to take top honors for what is clearly one of the most selfish and short-sighted moves ever in the telecommunications marketplace. Less than a week after extolling the values of open source technology during Google I/O 20131, Google wasted little time performing a complete 180 by deep sixing further support of the open source XMPP protocol for messaging and VoIP communications. With… Read More ›

The Week That Was: The PIAF Forum Returns

The Week That Was: The PIAF Forum Returns

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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What a week! If you read last week’s article, you already know that our hosting provider’s server experienced a 2-disk RAID failure (according to them) a week ago. Unbeknowst to us, the provider had discontinued making backups of domains that had grown beyond 10 gigabytes in size. That impacted the main PBX in a Flash site, pbxinaflash.com, as well as the PIAF Forum which is hosted on that site. Beginning last Friday, we set up an alternative site on Google+.… Read More ›

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 ›

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