Serious memory leak in Asterisk, updates available.
Since Asterisk 1.2.2 had some serious memory leaks, they’ve updated to version 1.2.4. This triggers an update for Asterisk@Home as well.
Add comment January 31st, 2006
Archive for January, 2006
Free Inbound Calls with Voipbuster and VoipCheap
This is so cool! We already knew that it was possible to make free calls to PSTN land lines for a number of countries using services like Voipbuster and VoipCheap. But did you know that you can get a free DID number as well? I got my number from Voipbuster a few weeks ago, but unfortunately in the wrong area. But today I tried to register for a number with VoipCheap and they assigned me a number in my own local area! I guess it is important that you completely (and correctly) fill in your profile to get a local number. Can you imagine your friends and family calling for local tariffs while you are traveling around the world? Thank you Voipbuster! My only concern is that someday the service will discontinue and I will lose the number, but hey, let’s enjoy while it lasts!
Add comment January 27th, 2006
Cable Providers Interconnecting in The Netherlands
All major cable providers have agreed on interconnecting their networks for VOIP on some sort of Internet Exchange to open up for free calling possible for their half million customers. By doing this they by-pass the old POTS and dominant company KPN.
Add comment January 26th, 2006
Asterisk for dummies - Asterisk@Home new release
Even though they haven’t updated their homepage yet, It seems that Asterisk@Home 2.3 has been released. You can view the release notes here.
Technorati Tags: Asterisk, VOIP
Add comment January 25th, 2006
GnomeMeeting is dead, long live Ekiga!
Since there were enough good reasons to come up with a new name for GnomeMeeting, the project has been renamed to Ekiga There’s a new beta available with these features:
* Call Forwarding on busy, no answer, always (SIP and H.323)
* Call Transfer (SIP and H.323)
* Call Hold (SIP and H.323)
* DTMFs support (SIP and H.323)
* Basic Instant Messaging (SIP)
* Text Chat (SIP and H.323)
* Possibility to register to several registrars (SIP) and gatekeepers (H.323)
* Possibility to use an outbound proxy (SIP) or a gateway (H.323)
* Message Waiting Indications (SIP)
* Audio AND Video (SIP and H.323)
* STUN support (SIP and H.323)
* DTMFs support
* LDAP support Among the new features, you can find:
* Improved audio quality using Wideband codecs (16 kHz)
* Echo Cancellation
* Easier NAT traversal
* Largely improved user interface
* Improved Video4Linux2 support
Add comment January 24th, 2006