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I will be taking a break from my various blogs for the next week and a half-including this one. I will be on vacation with my family, visiting friends and enjoying my time away from the usual day-to-day of my life. VoIP will be the farthest thing from my mind.

Unless one of the other roaming bloggers posts something while I'm away, expect The VoIP Weblog to be silent until I return.

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The Asterisk.org development team has released Asterisk versions 1.4.21.2 and 1.2.30.

Both of these releases include fixes for two security issues. Both of these issues affect users of the IAX2 channel driver. For more details on these vulnerabilities, see the published security advisories, AST-2008-010 and AST-2008-011.

AST-2008-010: Asterisk IAX ‘POKE’ resource exhaustion
  - http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-010.html

AST-2008-011: Traffic amplification in IAX2 firmware provisioning system
  - http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-011.html

Thank you for your continued support of Asterisk!

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Back in the early days of my industry experience, 8×8 was a company I was familiar with only insofar as I knew they had a Check Point firewall and I worked for the company that provided support for them. Nowadays, I know them as a VoIP company, both in terms of providing service through their residential Packet 8 service, many of their business offerings, and of course their patent portfolio, which totals 73.

Carolyn Schuk does an excellent piece on her VoIP Princess blog about 8×8, their history, and how they compare to the competition. What I did not know was that they started a residential VoIP offering well before Vonage did-back in 2002!

While 8×8 still maintains the Packet 8 service, they make more money on less price-sensitive business customers. Their product portfolio is quite impressive. Unlike Vonage, they are profitable, yet somehow their stock price is lower than Vonage's. Go figure.

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On September 26-28 in Glendale, Arizona, a group of Asterisk developers will be getting together for three days of hacking, coding, testing, designing and otherwise beating on the Asterisk code base.  The event will be hosted at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa immediately following AstriCon 2008 and will be low-key and open only to serious developers and contributors. We are expecting to keep the attendance to 50 people or less, including many members of the Digium Asterisk development team (currently around 15 people).

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Fring keeps on adding more handsets so you can IM and make VoIP calls from not only mobile phone handsets, but from the Nokia N810 as well! This screenshot was taken from the N810.

The J2ME client doesn't do VoIP, but it still allows you to IM on the various networks it supports, including Skype! In fact, the feature set for all the different versions varies, which is why they provide this handy, dandy chart that shows you what features are supported on which versions.

One other notable feature is that Fring will allow you to make PSTN calls using your Skype Out minutes. I made a test call from my Nokia N810 and it sounded pretty good.

Crossposted from The VoIP Weblog

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My post on GigaOM on Voice APIs brought out some interesting companies to my attention, both in the comments and privately in email. One such company is Numbr, which I knew about already and covered here before.

The original Numbr service is now called iNumbr, and is still generating traffic. Like many “free” services, it serves as a demonstration of the technology they can deliver to others. They have come up with their own API (called teleAPI) and are working with companies to utilize Numbr's infrastructure in a variety of ways.

One thing I love about this particular company-and why I think they will be ultimately be successful-is that they are doing this without venture capitalist money. It's been bootstrapped with the founders own money and now operates profitably. They can take their time and build their business for the long haul as there is no external pressure for a large, quick return on investment.

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I have never been a huge fan of push-to-talk services. It doesn't speak to me, to be quite honest. However, a lot of people like the Nextel Direct Connect service-something Sprint hasn't been able to duplicate since acquiring Nextel.

Apparently, Sprint has announced Push to Talk in another 14 markets, increasing the count of markets where their service is available to 46. Meanwhile, the folks at Palringo point out the absurdity of this. Their push-to-talk software is carrier-agnostic. If you've got a Windows PC, a Mac running Leopard, Windows Mobile handset or Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP1 or FP2 handset, you can run the Palringo client.

Palringo gives you more than push-to-talk, you can also IM with folks on the networks pictured here. All for free. Well, except for the data charges, of course.

If you're going to do push-to-talk, carrier-agnostic is the way to go. Unfortunately, this solution isn't handset agnostic, but then again, very little is.

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Talk of AT&T cutting back on its capital expenditures for this year have hit Cisco’s stock as well as the prospects for other telecom equipment vendors. Credit Suisse this week downgraded Cisco to neutral from outperform on reports that AT&T will cut back on its 2008 capex budget. Credit Suisse estimates that AT&T spends between $500 million and $1 billion annually with Cisco, or almost 2.5% of Cisco’s annual revenue.

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I have to admit, I'm actually a bit confused by the Jajah's plan to provide services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) using their new SMB Solution Suite. The press release I got in email suggested it was a PBX, but I am having a hard time calling it that. How does this solution look to everyone involved? How do calls come in? How do I make my calls via Jajah when I can use my existing phone?

While I have a vague idea of what this would look like based on following Jajah for a couple of years, most normal people arent going to get it.

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In what is a move away from just selling hardware and being able to provide a complete solution, VoIP Supply has partnered with bandwidth.com in order to be able to provide business with everything they need for VoIP. Often times, that includes providing Internet bandwidth and a VoIP provider-both of which bandwidth.com provides.

It opens up the market for VoIP Supply to be able to offer the whole package to customers, that's for sure. Not everyone knows the pieces they needed, nor can they necessarily assemble them. Having one place to go to get it all will be good for customers.

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