Thursday, August 4, 2011

Asterisk 10.0.0 Beta 1 Now Available

The Asterisk Development Team is pleased to announce the first beta release of
Asterisk 10.0.0-beta1. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/

From asterisk.org

Friday, January 21, 2011

My Thoughts - Technology

Hi Folks, today morning I was dreaming that why cant we have a device like the one as below,

A device which can have a option to insert sim card but it supports only data, not voice from telco service providers (Airtel, Vodafone, etc..)

Normally, if you take any mobile device it will support both voice and data (GPRS) nowdays 3G is coming into picture, if you take tablet and laptop it will support both wifi and wired network connection.

What I though is why cant a device support only data network from the GSM towers, so that a tablet can have a option to insert a SIM card which supports only data connection. This is because nowadays tablets are booming up, and it is easier to carry better then laptop, even in laptop also we can introduce this kind of option. If we roam outside we dont need to find out any wifi hotspots or any wifi access point, simply we can use as a mobile device only for data connection not for voice calls.

Feedbacks would be much appreciated....

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Why is Asterisk not a SIP Proxy?

Asterisk is *not* a SIP proxy. A SIP proxy handles call control on behalf of other user agents (UA) and usually does not maintain state during a call and therefore is never the endpoint of a call.

Asterisk, as a server, is a SIP registrar and location server and also acts as a useragent endpoint (softphone).

If it is 'controlling' or relaying a call from a SIP phone to another SIP phone, it simply acts as an endpoint UA to the originating call leg and then creates a new call to the receiving phone. Therefore, it stays "in the middle of the call," maintaining state and controlling, and optionally bridging, each remote endpoint. The audio channels (RTP) may go directly from phone to phone or may go through Asterisk's media bridge.

Asterisk can thus be described best as a "back-to-back user agent" (B2BUA), which is also consistent with the use of the term "PBX". Because of this architecture, fairly simple SIP functions, such as REFER (transfer) involve more aspects of the Asterisk core. On the other hand, the architecture provides additional power and flexibility, because each call leg can just as easily be replaced with a different technology channel (ZAP, H323, MGCP, etc) and, thus, Asterisk becomes a powerful media gateway. Article from voipinfo

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Prince Charles from London 'to build eco-friendly utopia for poor Indians'

LONDON, 11 JAN: Prince Charles wants to build an eco-friendly shanty town near Kolkata or Bangalore for 15,000 poor Indians, inspired by the one he saw in Oscar-winning film 'Slumdog Millionaire', a media report said. An article from Times of India...

Cant do the Sudoku? Do it from Google application...

Scan the sudoku from your Google mobile and the mobile application will transfer the sudoku to central server of Google and Google will provide you with completed results of sudoku. The speed depends upon your mobile internet connection. An article from Times of India.