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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 ›

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 ›

One Minute Cloud VPS: Meet Incredible PBX for HiFormance

One Minute Cloud VPS: Meet Incredible PBX for HiFormance

Monday, June 18, 2018

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Dec. 17 Update: Before signing up for HiFormance service, read the latest update on this provider here. Part of the challenge of deploying an Asterisk®-based server on a cloud platform is getting all of 1,000+ pieces in place without a hiccup during the installation. Particularly for first-time users of a VoIP platform, this can be problematic. HiFormance is one of our favorite low-cost cloud providers, and today they’re introducing something that no other cloud provider offers: a configured Incredible PBX… Read More ›

VoIP 101: Developing a Cost-Effective SIP Strategy

VoIP 101: Developing a Cost-Effective SIP Strategy

Monday, June 11, 2018

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In the lead up to the demise of Google Voice XMPP service next week, we wanted to offer what we have found to be a cost-effective SIP strategy which takes advantage of the best of all worlds. We would divide SIP offerings into five broad categories: business-class unlimited SIP trunks, Old Faithful SIP providers, Mom-and-Pop SIP services, dirt-cheap termination services, and Gee Whiz SIP providers. As we have said many times, the beauty of setting up an Asterisk® PBX such… Read More ›

Some Fresh CallerID Magic for Incredible PBX 13-13

Some Fresh CallerID Magic for Incredible PBX 13-13

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

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It’s been more than 10 years since we first introduced CallerID Trifecta for Asterisk® and the FreePBX® platform. A few months later it morphed into CallerID Superfecta and, as they say, the rest is history. Today CallerID Superfecta is used by over a million people around the globe to obtain CallerID Name (CNAM) information from over 70 different lookup sources. WOW! Just call me the Proud Papa. What a journey it has been, and our special thanks to the dozens… Read More ›

Dare to Compare: The Best (free) VoIP Offerings for 2018

Dare to Compare: The Best (free) VoIP Offerings for 2018

Sunday, May 27, 2018

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Last week we showed you how to get 10 months of free hosting for your Incredible PBX® in the Cloud. And today we present our semi-annual survey of the latest and greatest VoIP offerings for 2018. The beauty of the cloud platform is you can try all of them for less than a penny an hour and decide for yourself which free offering best meets your needs. This year we’ve ushered in new Asterisk® 13 LTS releases of Incredible PBX®… Read More ›

Cloud 9: Free Incredible PBX in the Cloud Hosting until 2019

Cloud 9: Free Incredible PBX in the Cloud Hosting until 2019

Friday, May 25, 2018

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These deals don’t come along every day so we’re interrupting our regular programming to alert you to a terrific, limited time cloud hosting offer for first-time users of Vultr. If you hurry, you can take advantage of a $25 credit on Vultr which translates into 10 free months of cloud hosting service. We can’t say enough about Vultr. They’ve been one of our key resources for development and testing of new releases of Incredible PBX for many years. Historically, they’ve… Read More ›