Asterisk VOIP Tips

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When Skype experienced a massive service outage two weeks ago, it sent a kind of panic to its users and the industry watchers. During the outage, the number of Skype users who are online, which usually fluctuates in the number of 5 million to 8 million users, stayed on a flatline at 1 million. For the more than 4 Million users affected by the outage, the service outage caused inconvenience, frustration, and very probably, disruptions to businesses who rely on the popular peer to peer voice over internet application. But beyond these effects to the users, the outage highlights a very important point about the reality of VOIP: as people and businesses become more and more dependent on VOIP technology and services, VOIP reliability will become more and more important.

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Last Tuesday, May 22, T-Mobile launched its newest gadget, The Wing. Like the iPhone, which is scheduled to ship in about a month, the Wing is a Wi-Fi equipped combined PDA and mobile phone. It was developed by Taiwan’s High Tech Computer Corp. exclusively for T-Mobile.

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Here’s another player offering a downloadable mobile VoIP-enabling software application. EQO Communications (pronounced “echo”), a provider of mobile Internet phone services, announced its new EQO Mobile version. EQO was originally designed to add Skype functionality to mobile phones, however EQO is now offering their own mobile VoIP solution with EQO Out “credits” for PSTN termination. The new version, which still runs on Java compatible phones, will let users make international and long distance calls as well as send and receive IM and text messages on their mobile phones at local calling and messaging rates.

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Get ready for the latest salvo from Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. announced last Monday, May 13, at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007 in Los Angeles, its plan to build telephony gear compatible with its soon-to-be-released unified communications software. Microsoft Corp. and nine manufacturers unveiled 15 IP telephones that will become available for use in the public beta program of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. The manufacturers are ASUSTek Computer Inc., GN, LG-Nortel Co. Ltd., NEC Corp., Plantronics Inc., Polycom Inc., SAMSUNG, Tatung Co. and ViTELiX.

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We earlier mentioned that Microsoft’s Office Communications Server beat out hardware-based VoIP telephone systems in terms of quality. Now Microsoft has launched the public beta of its Office Communications Server 2007.

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Apparently Asterisk is not Linux-only. Version 0.60 of the Windows version of Asterisk has been released recently. This comes from Asterisk build 1.2.14. According to asteriskwin32.com, the following are the features of this new release:

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