Goodbye PHX, Hello NYC (Astricon 2008)

It’s the 27th of September, and AstriCon 2008 is over. I have to say that I really enjoyed myself. Apart from the lectures that I attended, that had opened my eyes to some new areas of Asterisk (I’ll be needing to think about those), I’ve met some people and finally managed to achieve some of […]

London’s Heathrow Terminal 5

Ok, so I’m on my way to AstriCon 2008. AstriCon this year is taking place in Glendale Arizona. If I’m flying to Arizona, why am I writing about London? well, as some of you may know, I’m a fair British Airways fan. I donno, maybe it’s the service, maybe it’s the fact that I’m an […]

TrixBox shows its support (or lack of it)

Well, it’s quite common to get a flame here and there on any Internet technical maling list, but the following really caught my eye. Here’s an extract from the TrixBox forum: ———————- CUT HERE ———————- Subject: SS7 on Sangoma a101D shoieb_arshad Submitted by shoieb_arshad on Sat, 09/20/2008 – 12:16am. hello i have a two running […]

Dialers – Myth or Truth?

Over the past 12 months, I’ve been heavily involved in the development of high-speed dialers. While many companies published a prolific number of automatic dialers (power, predictive, broadcast) – none of these companies ever announced there top speed dialing capability. An so I ask myself: “What is the reason not to release these numbers publicly?” […]