On Saturday 15 October 2005 06:26 pm, Brian Friday wrote: > Somewhat related Astricon just took place in Anaheim this last week. > A couple of us from La Sierra managed to get out there it was at > times very interesting, highly scary and unfortunately in some areas > very boring.
Had I known I would have been there. How do I get on the lists I need to be on? > The Digium guys look with it but their presenters were very young to > say the least. Couple interesting talks though that we attended: You almost always find the very young or the very old doing the open source stuff; the middle-aged are busy making money <smile>. > VoIP and E-911 - Very scary, so much so that if your thinking of > deploying any VoIP either internally or to communicate with others > inside the US. You need to read up on it. From this talk basically > I've come to the opinion that wireless VoIP is either deader than a > door nail or soon to be. Oh and violating the FCC mandate on the > E-911 issue is $11,000 dollars of fine per violation, per day. A > single customer is constitutes a single violation at least. Wireless VoIP location parsing isn't that difficulty if you're using phones and connectivity providers supporting satellite positioning. It's already being tested. And the FCC has been backpedaling continuously on the effective dates, which have already been passed once or twice. > Provisioning VoIP phones via DHCP/FTP/ and LDAP - Awesome talk about > using Polycomm IP500/501's with DHCP, a special ftp server as well as > LDAP to deploy Asterisk VoIP within Sun Microsystems Sun Labs > environments. They've got their Asterisk box connected via T1/PRI to > the company Definity Avaya PBX as well as using IAX and SIP > internally. Polycomm's expensive. I've found AIX (asterisk) compatible deskphones starting at us$65. > Others of note: > > A call center case study with up to 220 simultaneous agents with call > volumes of 70,000 per day or higher in some cases. > Asterisk integration into Jabber implementation > > Anyways don't mean to hijack Jeff's thread thought I would give a > report for those potentially interested. If you haven't checked out > Asterisk do, its pretty incredible what is on the horizon using this > software. You don't see me mind <smile>. Anyone going to Internet Telephony show in LA week after next? I'll be there and would love to share the trip if possible. I just spoke to someone from another linux group who already has an asterisk server he's playing with. So, yes, let's get something going. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services 1254 So Waterman Ave., Suite 50, San Bernardino, CA 92408 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
