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November 28th, 2008
Previously I had compressed this the wrong way with a result of chipmunk voices.
Corrected and pretty cool! Frognet started in 1996 as a dial-up ISP company. The availability of open source telephony software is only one part of the business operation equation. Other real costs to manage an ISP business [...]

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I started recording this section with John Todd’s slide Multi-Dimensional Niche: Mobile! Open BTS for example is a GSM bay station. This was available to cell phones at Burning Man via the IP side. Calls went out over Asterisk and then to a WIFI trunk and then to a SIP termination provider. [...]

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ohn starts his presentation with something like … instead of fearing PBX vendors who offer an alternative to traditional PBX, go the easy route and make them your ally. Resell IP PBX from an outsourced vendor and ensure quality of service since you control the network as an ISP.
On the other hand, [...]

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John usually talks to audiences who are very unhappy because they don’t own the network nor have control over QoS, but WISPs and other ISPs attending ISPCON are in control and do own the network. The voice they sell can be as good or bad as they are willing to enable with [...]

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This is first of four recordings of John Todd presenting on Asterisk at ISPCON 2008.
“Asterisk is the hammer for all voice nails,” says John. He encourages the audience to be skeptical and test the thoughts and ideas he shares at ISPCON in San Jose, California during 2008.
This if the first of four [...]

Hear the Telecom Reality in Shona in Zimbabwe
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Some great Zimbabwe Online guys and Danny Ngai of Jaxtr discuss telecommunications situation in Zimbabwe in English and in a common Zimbabwean language Shona at ISPCON 2008 in San Jose.
… browse some of our team’s other blogs at http://blogs.didx.net and http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/. You’re welcome to comment, [...]