"RealTunnel 2.0 continues to deliver the best possible voice and video quality by automatic and intelligent discovery and use of optimal transport mechanisms for the call at hand. Using the RealTunnel SDK allows customers and partners to focus on delivering communication and collaboration solutions without compromising security or having to solve the complex challenges of connecting calls over firewalls and NATs", said Espen Skjæran, CTO, Paradial.

New features and capabilities include:

Support for ICE/STUN/TURN, UDP, TCP and HTTPS relay support including HTTP proxy and authentication schemes. Small client footprint. Available as SDK for softphones and hardphones, and as a stand-alone enterprise proxy for corporate networks. SOAP provisioning interface. "The new RealTunnel release demonstrates Paradial's continued investment and commitment in making it simple and secure to build, deploy and operate standards-based IP-communication and collaboration solutions", said Ingvar Aaberg, CEO, Paradial.

Availability and Platforms

RealTunnel SDK is available on Windows and Linux.  Support for additional platforms is planned.

Key Product Facts:
• The only truly open solution on the market supporting any SIP client and any SIP Registrar.
• Small footprint SDK.
• Most comprehensive FW/NAT product available. RealTunnel supports voice, video and T.120 application sharing across any firewall.
• The customers can use existing network infrastructure firewalls.
• No network or firewall modification is required.
• Excellent voice and video quality.

Supported network protocols:
• UDP
• TCP
• HTTPS
• RTP
• RTCP

Supported standards:
• SIP (RFC3261)
• STUN (RFC3489)
• TURN
• ICE
• Symmetric Response (RFC3581)
• Extension Header Field for Registering Non-Adjacent Contacts (RFC 3327)
• Locating SIP Server (SIP DNS)

The most common HTTP proxy authentication schemes are supported:
• Basic authentication
• Digest authentication
• NTLM authentication
• Proxy pac scripts

Source: WebIT PR 

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With RSA-IQWIMAX and the RSA3408A, engineering teams will be able to more quickly detect, diagnose and resolve design issues improving time to market for WiMAX end-user products, including consumer electronics, computers and handheld devices.

RSA-IQWIMAX provides spectrum and modulation measurements on OFDM and OFDMA signals in accordance with IEEE802.16-2004 (fixed) and IEEE802.16e-2005 (mobile) WiMAX standards.

The RSA3408A captures intermittent or random events that other solutions will miss enabling engineering teams to detect, diagnose and resolve design issues more quickly.

The combination of RSA3408A real-time spectrum analyser with RSA-IQWIMAX software is the world's most powerful WiMAX R and D test solution, enabling engineers to perform needed time-, frequency- and modulation-domain measurements to decompose signals and uncover anomalies, and generate in-depth analysis for troubleshooting WiMAX devices at the design stage.

'With digital RF technology accelerating the move to packet oriented network technologies like WiMAX, packet collisions and spurious signal detection becomes much more complex'.

'In addition, WiMAX services may be sharing spectrum with other services operating asynchronously making interference detection very difficult but critical to proper operation'.

'The RSA3408A with its unique ability to trigger, capture, and analyse transient RF phenomenon is an ideal tool for WiMAX designers', said Rick King, Vice President, Real-Time Spectrum analyser product line, Tektronix.

'The RSA3408A combined with the spectrum and modulation measurement capabilities provided by RSA-IQWIMAX software creates a highly-efficient and effective test set, providing WiMAX research and development engineers the world's fastest time to market for new component and module designs'.

RSA-IQWIMAX analysis software is used on an external PC connected to the RSA3408A by Ethernet or GPIB.  Optionally, an engineer may load captured data and analyse the results offline.

Test results from the RSA3408A and RSA-IQWIMAX software can be tightly integrated with LitePoint's IQmax WiMAX test system to form an integrated end-to end test solution from R and D through manufacturing test.

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“Our goal was to simplify VoIP 911 for enterprises,” said Lev Deich, Director of 911 Enable. “When employees move their phones within and between branches, the RedBOX works in the background to automatically make the appropriate location updates. Then, if a 911 call is placed, the RedBOX routes the call to the closest PSAP and displays the precise location of the caller on the dispatcher's screen. We're proud to be able to bundle location discovery with our turn-key VoIP 911 service, and at a price accessible to all enterprises.”

The RedBOX features and benefits:

* Automatically detects phone moves using discovery protocols such as CDP and LLDP-MED
* Allows users to move within and between enterprise locations without performing manual updates
* Performs rapid, call delivery to PSAPs in the US and Canada
* A complete, turnkey solution

Today's challenge of VoIP 911 is to integrate VoIP, which is by nature nomadic, with the existing PSTN emergency network. 911 Enable captures the location information of a VoIP 911 caller and uses it to automatically route the call to the closest Public Safety Answering Point.

Source: 911 Enable 

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FirstHand Technologies, an innovator in transforming smartphones and PDAs into full-featured business telephones, today announced that it has been granted a patent for a multi-protocol data communication system supporting wireless telephony and content delivery.

This patent is licensed from Columbia University, along with several pending applications on which Prof. Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia University is an inventor. Patents pending include inventions for reducing MAC layer handoff latency in wireless networks; for call routing in an IP telephony network; for unified messaging in inter/intranet telephony; for an Ethernet-based telephone and system for inter/intranet telephony; for internet telephony based on SIP; and for a system and method for cooperative roaming.

In addition to his role as chief scientific advisor for FirstHand Technologies, Prof. Schulzrinne is the department chair of computer science at Columbia University and is one of the world's leading authorities on Internet Protocol (IP) technologies. Protocols co-developed by him are now Internet standards, used by almost all Internet telephony and multimedia applications.

“We are driven to create ongoing critical innovations for our market and are excited to work closely with Prof. Schulzrinne and Columbia University to do so,” said David Hattey, president & CEO of FirstHand Technologies. “The granted patent and the other patent applications serve to protect the enormous investments we’ve made in earning our reputation as the leader in extending enterprise IP PBX functionality onto mobile devices.”

For enterprises needing to mobilize their employees, FirstHand Technologies delivers the FirstHand Mobile Console and FirstHand Mobile Assistant. Both products extend the functionality of various IP PBXs to a variety of mobile devices. Using Mobile Console, enterprise workers can place and receive a call over the best available network – WiFi or cellular – optimizing for lowest cost, highest call quality or user preference.

The Mobile Console delivers personal command and control of communications services over WiFi or WiFi and GSM or WiFi and CDMA network interfaces. Using Mobile Assistant, activities normally confined to the office can now be performed on a mobile device such as making and answering enterprise calls, checking and reviewing voice mail, looking up colleague availability and connecting with one or more of them with the click of a phone button.

About FirstHand Technologies

FirstHand Technologies mobilizes the enterprise by extending the functionality of numerous IP PBXs to a variety of smartphones and PDAs. FirstHand Technologies empowers an enterprise’s workforce to go mobile with the same functionality as their office desktop. The FirstHand Technologies advanced fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) solution delivers enterprise features and “single number” seamless connectivity over cellular networks and/or WiFi enabling organizations to achieve “enterprise communications everywhere.” The enterprise benefits from faster communication abilities, increased productivity, and significant cost savings.

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"Cellular technology and the productivity gains enjoyed by businesses using it now can be further enhanced by integrating this capability into office telephony systems," states Chip Harleman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. "Connecting a CallFinder GSM to the company's telephony system creates a gateway to the cellular networks that can save money and provide emergency communications in the event of a service interruption. The attractive pricing for long distance charges on cellular service plans makes them advantageous to use for everyday business communications when those mobile accounts are shared via any telephony system utilizing a CallFinder GSM. In addition, multiple CallFinder GSMs can be used if a business needs more than one cellular line. The CallFinder GSM can bring both cost savings and communications security to businesses of any size."

The cellular wireless CallFinder GSM CF100 cellular gateway can interface to most call-processing systems utilizing the system's analog FXS (Foreign eXchange Subscriber) or FXO (Foreign eXchange Office) interface. The CallFinder GSM cellular gateway is managed and controlled using AT commands entered via the unit's serial port. The CF100 is programmable and can operate with either an FXS or FXO interface.

Multi-Tech Systems is an ISO 9001:2000 certified global manufacturer of award-winning telephony, Internet and device networking products that connect voice and data over IP networks, add connectivity to equipment using embedded technologies, and provide the latest in cellular wireless technologies. With a 36-year history of inventing products known for their reliability and performance, Multi-Tech Systems still employs the same mission on which the company was founded: To provide solutions that solve real business problems. To reinforce this philosophy, Multi-Tech Systems prides itself on developing and fostering mutually beneficial, long-term relationships with its worldwide network of technology partners, sales channels and customers.

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General Dynamics NASSCO, a unit of Falls Church, Va.-based General Dynamics, currently is under contract to the Naval Sea Systems Command to build eight T-AKE class ships. Each T-AKE ship is 689 feet long and has a capacity for about 6,700 metric tons of dry cargo weight and nearly 2,400 metric tons of fuel.

The ships are designed to provide ammunition, food, fuel, repair parts and other necessities to ships at sea and to contribute to the Navy's ability to maintain a forward presence.

Fortress is providing a product that enables a secure wireless link between the Navy's warehouse management system and the end users.

Securing more than 12,000 wireless government networks, Tampa-based Fortress specializes in deployable networking, mobile edge applications, fixed wireless and office wireless LANs, it said in the release.

Source: Tampa Biz Journal 

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In addition, the Tokyo Quality Lab is expected to achieve interlock working with the other Polycom testing facilities in the Unities States located in Andover, Massachusetts and Austin, Texas. The new Interoperability Quality Lab ensures Polycom solutions are easy to use and will integrate into a wide variety of third party systems and all Polycom products seamlessly.

Polycom's Interoperability testing staff consists of a mix of dedicated engineers and several partners. The testing staff and function report to Susan Davies, Vice President of Corporate Quality and Customer Success at Polycom in the company's Pleasanton, Calif. headquarters office.

"The Polycom labs were designed to recreate both the typical customer configurations as well as custom environments," said Susan Davies. "Our customers face complex challenges ensuring the systems they have selected for conferencing and collaboration interface with each other and with the IP telephony-based or presence-based infrastructures they have as their enterprise communications backbone architectures. I selected Tokyo for the Quality Lab because of the country's meticulous reputation for ensuring very high quality in all they do. I felt if we could satisfy Japanese demand for quality, we would be positioned well to address the needs of the rest of the world."

Within the 3 Quality Labs there are a number of tests being run. Interoperability testing verifies new products and releases against existing Polycom products, and new code is tested during development phase against networks, bridges, and video endpoints. Scalability testing involves the Polycom MGC bridge in LAN and WAN scenarios where they are stress tested to see how many endpoints they scale to support. Certification testing uses all business collaboration systems, as well as IP telephony and IM/presence based systems from alliance partners such as Microsoft and Alcatel, and in the future it will contain the systems of all other alliance partners. These solutions are re-certified when new versions of Polycom solutions are ready for global availability. All tests are conducted with market competitiveness in mind.

The Quality Lab is also available to Polycom engineers who wish to test individual voice or video endpoints and applications, or infrastructure hardware and software in specific environments. Polycom customers working with members of Polycom's service staff may use the Quality Lab to replicate an issue a customer may be experiencing.

Source: Polycom 

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The Skypad SKP-3300 (crafty title!) can be plugged into any USB Port to indulge in some good old Skype calling ! The Skypad is 100% Skype compatible and one can access Skype directly from the Skypad itself. One also comes across Volume Control Buttons on the Skypad itself and two LED Indicators for Num Lock and phone ringer status. This one is not Mac compatible and works only with Windows2000, WindowsXP. For more info visit the Product Page

Source: Mobile Whack 

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"With the explosion of affordable high-speed mobile data access, operators are now being challenged to make the best possible use of their networks, especially when peer-to-peer applications increase their traffic load and compete with their own services," says Roberto Loiola, Vice President, Marketing and Sales, Networks, Nokia.

"The Nokia Peer-to-peer Traffic Control solution now gives operators the means to analyse and manage such traffic. It allows them to apply their business models by prioritizing the traffic of preferred services and partners, maximize their return on network investment, and avoid becoming only bit pipes for other content providers."

The Nokia Peer-to-peer Traffic Control solution enhances the service, subscriber, and access awareness capabilities of the Nokia Flexi ISN to identify data traffic according to the type of service, for example file sharing, so that operators can treat that traffic in a way that best optimizes the use of network resources according to the operators' business strategy.

Source: Cellular News 

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The phone, made by Belkin, is one of several new mobile devices that allow users to make free or low-cost phone calls over the Internet. They are designed to take advantage of the hundreds of thousands of wireless access points deployed in cafés, parks, businesses and, most important, homes.

The technology's advocates say that as long as people are paying for high- speed Wi-Fi access in their homes, they should be able to use it as a conduit for inexpensive calls and an alternative to traditional phone service.

But in a twist that raises some tricky ethical and legal questions, the phones can also be used on the go, piggybacking on whatever access points happen to be open and available, like that of Schaffer.

Schaffer, a retired business teacher, seemed affably cautious about the idea of having his bandwidth borrowed.

"If you're a friend, I'd say, 'Let's give it a try.' If you're a stranger, probably not, unless you had to make an emergency call," he said.

The call made from Schaffer's lawn went through but was quickly disconnected, apparently because of a weak signal. Schaffer did not seem to feel he owed any apology for the spotty coverage, though he did express concern for the person on the other end of the line.

"I know what it's like to have a call dropped," he said.

For all its limitations, the technology is starting to emerge commercially, with companies like Vonage, Skype and T-Mobile now selling or supporting mobile devices that use Wi-Fi networks.

In some cases, the voice service is free. A Belkin phone that works with the Skype calling service costs about $180; calls to Skype users on computers are free, as are outgoing calls to domestic phone numbers, at least through the end of the year. Incoming calls from phones cost extra. Vonage charges $90 for a phone and $15 a month for 500 minutes of talk time.

One big hurdle is that the Wi-Fi radio frequency spectrum is unlicensed and not maintained by any one company, so call quality can be unreliable. Moving a few yards can require finding a new network to connect to. In other words, when you place free or low-cost calls - especially on a stranger's network - you sometimes get what you pay for.

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"They're inserting themselves in between you and an application that you want. I think that has scary, scary implications," said Sacca.

He also hit out at operators claiming to provide unlimited Net access but then blocking hungry applications like VoIP and streaming video. I'm sure they'll just claim some 'fair use' policy.

"VoIP is not a service. It's a technology which provides only one thing — cheaper calls — and we can provide cheaper calls very easily by cutting prices,” Bobby Rao, Vodafone corporate strategy director, told journalists and analysts on Wednesday.“We think the best way to offer people cheaper calling plans is to offer them cheaper calling plans... The value customers are looking for is not VoIP,” Rao added.

Source: Tech Digest 

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Note: I like informative information like this.  Personally I know of alot of open unsecure wireless networks around my area.  People need to know what it means to operate a wireless networks and step they can take to reduce risk to your sensitive computers and data. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

He stands out from the crowd of government workers, techies and managers at the annual ICE ("Inspire. Connect. Educate.") Technology Conference here.  Dressed mostly in black, and a bit younger than the average delegate, he lurks near the entrance of the conference room as several hundred delegates file in, fiddling with his computer gear.

Then, when it's his turn to speak, Brad Haines shocks many with what he's discovered about their wireless devices. People throughout the room reach for their laptops, cellphones and PDAs to turn them off. "I've personally discovered over 140,000 devices in North America, about 70,000 in the Edmonton area alone," he boasts. "In fact, I've stopped counting."

Haines calls himself "Edmonton's local wardriving geek," a reference to his favorite hobby of looking for networks and devices that are broadcasting their presence to the world.

He directs the audience to the website www.wigle.net which, at last count, had tracked 7,910,944 access points around the world, complete with their exact locations. Sure enough, zooming in on the interactive map of Edmonton produces a dense cloud of access points with names such as poohbutt, Zeus and Henry the Network, but also, ominously, Accounting and Epcor, an Alberta utility company.

Not that anyone is saying major corporations have their networks sitting out there ripe for the picking, but at least they're discoverable by anyone who cares to look.

While Haines may look out of place at a mainstream computer conference, he fits right in at the notorious "hacker cons" such as Defcon and ShmooCon.

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The company has a reputation for producing mission- and business-critical networking and telecommunication solutions for the telecoms, public sector, industry, aerospace, and defense markets. Its customers include Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Infineon Technologies, NASA, the European Agency for Defense and Aerospace (EADS), and the European Space Agency (ESA).

Critical Links’ edgeBOX product is a fully integrated network device that includes an IP PBX, with comprehensive security features and integrated Quality of Service (QoS) functions that are designed to support small and medium-size business enterprises (SMBs). One of the interesting aspects of the edgeBOX is that in addition to its IP PBX functions, it typically replaces between four and seven single-function devices, such as a router, security appliance, network access server, file, web, and email servers, VoIP gateway and Wi-Fi access points, but with a fully remotely managed system, and a significantly lower total cost of ownership.

The product’s name, edgeBOX, is thus indicative of the comprehensive suite of functions it performs. Network integrators market edgeBOX to enterprises for deployment at their branch offices, while telecom service providers (TSPs) and managed services providers (MSPs) offer it as a service to their SMB customers. The edgeBOX runs on a Linux-based system, and is therefore compatible with standard servers that are available from a number of hardware vendors, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. Depending upon the hardware platform deployed, the edgeBOX system can support up to 500 end users.

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Note:  I thought this was kinda of an interesting read.  I am not sure how they do things in Japan but it sounds like the "relay station" they speak of sounds almost like a Central Office (CO) type setup with some sort of local loop. 

A 61-year-old man who invested millions of yen in an IP telephone business but failed to receive the returns he expected has filed a lawsuit against a company in the Maebashi District Court, demanding 27 million yen in damages and the annulment of his contract, it has been learned.

The plaintiff, Tokyo-based Kinmirai Tsuushin Inc, solicited funds from investors to set up IP telephone facilities. In his lawsuit, the man claims the company did not provide sufficient explanations when soliciting investors, and that the firm failed to inform investors that the business could be unprofitable.

The man attended a meeting on the firm's business in December 2004, according to his lawsuit. At the meeting, he heard about the company's "relay station owner" system, under which investors who covered the cost of setting up new relay stations would continue to receive payments from subscribers for the use of lines going through those stations.

The company told the attendees that relay station owners could recover their investment within three years.

In January 2005 he formed a contract with the firm, and by July this year he had paid 23.65 million yen in setup costs, and 9.57 million yen towards the rental of IP telephone consoles in China.

Between August 2005 and September 2006, he received 8.2 million yen in dividends, but since October the payments have stopped.

"The condition of the relay station is unclear, and if the company can't secure a certain number of users of the station's lines, there'll be no foreseeable way of getting the initial investment back -- but the company neglected to explain that," the man said in his claim.

Lawyers for the firms said they couldn't comment on the case.

"We need to examine the claims in detail, and we cannot comment at this stage," a legal representative for Kinmirai Tsuushin said.

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The joint distribution and integration agreement between the two companies integrates PIN-to-PIN messaging, sometimes called "PIN blasting," with Wallace Wireless' Mass Notification service and Send Word Now's Smart Notification Service. These services allow organizations to reliably communicate with mobile users anytime, anywhere, in real-time, and respond with decisive action.

"Mobile devices are increasingly being relied upon as essential tools for communication during emergencies," said Rob Moffat, president of Wallace Wireless. "It is critical that when time is of the essence, access and management capabilities be as accessible and as easy to activate as possible. This integrated offering does just that -- it leverages Send Word Now's notification engine and our incident management tools for Blackberry users to provide a seamless easy-to-use service."

Send Word Now's CEO and President Mitchell Orlowsky added, "Our customers can now initiate PIN messages from their computer, phone or BlackBerry. With pre-arranged workflows, they can quickly and easily push out stored response information on how to handle a certain situation, enabling faster response in critical situations."

PIN-to-PIN messaging lets BlackBerry users communicate directly with other BlackBerry users in both emergency and everyday situations. PIN-to-PIN messaging serves as a backup communication mode when email networks are down or voice networks are clogged. Because PIN messages are not routed through an email server, BlackBerry users can still send and receive text messages in event of email network failure. In addition, during crisis situations when call volumes inundate landline and wireless voice networks, BlackBerry PIN networks have proven to be resilient. PIN-to-PIN messaging takes up much less bandwidth than a voice call, so these messages are still able to get through on the wireless network even when voice calls cannot.

Companies such as large banks and real estate companies are using Wallace Wireless and Send Word Now services for business continuity and emergency notification. In the event of critical business disruptions, a major bank uses the service to locate a team of high level management personnel and automatically join them onto a conference call. This helps them to streamline response time during incidents and bridge communication gaps.

A prominent real estate company uses mass notification to alert over 100 tenants of critical issues. Tenants manage their own contact information (via web interface) minimizing property management intervention and allowing greater flexibility. In times of crisis, tenants are notified quickly and effectively. Most importantly, all communication is tracked and recorded to ensure the correct information has been effectively relayed.

Source: Send Word Now 

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“Kerry is a huge addition to our trixbox project. He represents the trixbox community and will insure that the Asterisk ecosystem has an open, stable and easy to use application platform on which to build their businesses,” said Chris Lyman, founder and CEO of Fonality. “I’m very pleased to have him as a part of our organization, and his hire shows our continued commitment to supporting the trixbox project.”

“Kerry is a well-respected Asterisk expert and well-known within the trixbox community. His background brings real-world knowledge of the Asterisk market to the trixbox team,” said Andrew Gillis, founder of trixbox and director of community development at Fonality. “His insider knowledge and technical understanding will help with our goal of making trixbox the number one application platform for open source telephony.”

Garrison has spent more than two decades as an IT professional and entrepreneur who has worked with the Asterisk open source platform since its inception and has been a speaker at the AstriCon Asterisk conference and exhibition. Garrison is the founder of VOIPSpeak.net, an online portal designed to share VoIP-related news, reviews and tutorials, as well as AsteriskTutorials.com, which provides highly educational video training tutorials to help individuals gain additional instruction on setting up their Asterisk-based telephony applications.

Source: Fonality 

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Note: I saw this coming for some time.  My buddy told me about how to use Boost Mobile and a java applet to create a low cost version the the "Lo Jack" vehicle tracking system.

The diminutive cellphone is turning out to be the most clever of devices. As it connects to more networks, stores more kinds of data, delivers more kinds of entertainment wherever we happen to be it effectively becomes the most personal computer we own.

Now, as more of the handsets are equipped to use the Global Positioning System, the satellite-based navigation network, we are on the verge of enjoying services made possible only when information is matched automatically to location. Maps on our phones will always know where we are. Our children can’t go missing. Movie listings will always be for the closest theaters; restaurant suggestions, organized by proximity. We will even have the option of choosing free cellphone service if we agree to accept ads focused on nearby businesses.

None of this entails anything exotic. The technology has been ready for a while, but not the customers. Prospective benefits have seemed paltry when placed against privacy concerns. Who will have access to our location information — present and past? Can carriers assure us that their systems are impervious to threats from stalkers and other malicious intruders or neglectful employees — or from government snoops without search warrants? Contemplating worst-case scenarios, our hands holding these very mobile devices have been frozen, hesitant to turn the location beacon on. Are we finally ready to flip the switch?

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In the months that followed, the vice-president of IT for Gold's Gym, based in Dallas, learned some valuable lessons about not only VoIP, but any major network project that involves upgrades to numerous, far-flung sites. Badugu shared his insights in a presentation at the recent Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Dallas. He said the lessons include using a phased implementation process; establishing clear SLAs (service-level agreements), including penalties; and conducting a thorough technology assessment to identify potential problems.

When the rollout began in June, it was scheduled to take eight weeks. As of mid-November, the data portion of the rollout is complete, but only about 20 percent of the voice lines have been ported to the VoIP network. Badugu remains bullish, expects benefits including 35 to 40 percent savings in voice and data service costs, and already is saving $6,000 to $10,000 on his conference calling. But if he had it to do again, he'd do more than a few things differently.

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In the months that followed, the vice president of IT for Gold's Gym, based in Dallas, learned some valuable lessons about not only VoIP, but any major network project that involves upgrades to numerous, far-flung sites. Badugu shared his insights in a presentation at the recent Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Dallas. He said the lessons include using a phased implementation process; establishing clear service-level agreements (SLA), including penalties; and conducting a thorough technology assessment to identify potential problems.

When the rollout began in June, it was scheduled to take eight weeks. As of mid-November, the data portion of the rollout is complete, but only about 20% of the voice lines have been ported to the VoIP network. Badugu remains bullish on VoIP, expects benefits including a 35% to 40% savings in voice and data service costs, and already is saving $6,000 to $10,000 on his conference calling. But if he had it to do over, he'd do more than a few things differently.

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The Zabady from Twinbird is coming out in Japan and is a portable WiFi home TV. Comprising of a 7-inch screen and 480x234-pixel resolution, this mini TV receives video streamed via a docking station from sources like your TV, PVR or DVD player.

However this device only works over a short distance and if you tread too far away from your home the signal will diminish.

Simply put this is a short range Slingbox, but I'm not sure anyone is that addicted to TV to need to carry one around the house with them.

Source: PVR Wire 

Posted by Dal at 09:51 AM | Direct Link Posted to Wireless Hardware

What's New in 0.0.32:

    * LiveCD:
          o Now you can save all your configuration between reboots
(Celliax, Skype, Language, etc). You can save all of them on a regular file on your hard disk (or on a USB key) and have all of it automatically reloaded at next boot. No more need to "retrain" Skype
at each reboot!
          o Linux support for all kind of datacables in the Celliax Devkits
          o New kernel 2.6.17.14 with ark3116 and working wireless
ipw2200 modules
          o Headless Celliax, cellphones, Asterisk and Skype (without X)! Booting in console mode you find a script
(/usr/local/asterisk/usr/sbin/celliax_server) that automatically launch Xvfb (the fake X11 server), Skype and Celliax. Also via ssh! Isn't that cute?
          o Graphic configuration for Celliax
          o Automatically download the latest sources with an svn script (/usr/local/asterisk/usr/sbin/svn_celliax, now's working)
          o Contains the Windows XP drivers for the Celliax DevKit datacables

    * Celliax (both Linux and Windows):
          o Asterisk 1.2.13
          o New configuration file format
          o Better interaction with Skype (no more stuck in skype_dir, much faster skype_dir on Windows)
          o Source code is more readable (but will be much cleaned, refactored and polished in the future ;) ) and beginning of Doxygen documentation
    * And many more minor things...

Celliax development and download site: www.celliax.org
 

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The solution enables enterprises to control and reduce total cost of ownership by delivering high accessibility and flexibility. It provides smooth and safe migration to a future-proof IP network at a pace appropriate to individual enterprises' needs.

The latest version of the MX-ONE IP-PBX maximizes business communications with extended system capacity for up to 50,000 end-users, standardized management and web-based tools.

One key enhancement in this version is the introduction of support for the session initiation protoco