Ip Pbx Solutions: Cheaper Communication for Global Village

August 16, 2005 · Posted in SIP · Comment 

The essential part of any business is communication and this gap can lead to misunderstanding; so at the managerial level, communication is a challenging topic with difficulties and high costs, especially if the business is on outsourcing or have offices across the world. Well, considering the cost, functionality, reliability, scalability and security; the emergence of IP PBX has moved the organizations to avail the innumerable benefits associated with it, contrary to the past modes of communication. IP PBX solution offers the services which help to reduce the monthly telephony charges with more of voice quality feature; this service is offered by the Internet telephony.

To avail the services of cheaper telephony charges, users have to avail VoIP PBX systems on their Linux operating system and the handsets used are referred as SIP phone. The SIP or Session Initiation Protocol is a switching protocol to control the user’s telephone calls over the Internet. Thus, while using the IP PBX solutions, user’s call between the subscribers of the same VoIP service providers completely stays on the network whereas calls from the non-subscribes are terminated to PSTN i.e. Public Switched Telephone Network. Well, user can not only use the services of IP PBX but he can also sell this solution to numberless business houses.

Many businesses are nowadays opting for virtual PBX solutions as they are simpler and easier to install and configure compared to traditional communication system. To implement PBX VoIP solutions, any business or company has to install the IP PBX in its headquarter and distribute the employees IP phone with the VoIP adapter. With this set-up users can make in-house and out-house calling routed through Internet at a substantial rate, moreover, user can add additional phone connections and extensions. Thus, before replacing the PSTN to IP PBX solutions with Internet telephony, a user must be thorough with the services and its usability.

5 Problems Solved Quickly by Using Voice Overs, to Do Slide Shows

August 10, 2005 · Posted in VoIP · Comment 

Remember sitting in a classroom watching a slideshow that took an eon to endure? The teacher or presenter would succeed in capturing your attention and then try to keep it as they heroically plowed through a monotonous cycle of clicking as the fan chugged along with a gentle hum whose uncanny ability to make you sleep was second to none.

Click, next point, click, boring spiel, click, click, click… and you’re off to greener pastures doodling in a notebook, etching your name into a desk or drooling on your books.

For whatever reason (maybe the ones above may suffice), people in today’s society have given the slideshow a bad name, calling it obscenities like “ridiculous”, “a drag”, and the oh so clever “boring!”

Why do you think that is?

Maybe it’s because slideshows, at least the ones from twenty or thirty years ago, are passe and stink of film canisters with eruditely written content draped in intellectual garb that are sadly, under regular circumstances, not attractive or consumable to the average person.

Don’t get me wrong, (I love vintage media), but when it has lost its ability to reach an audience, it’s time to jazz it up, especially in our generation where everything needs to be relevant, immediate and packaged in a way that people can identify with and perceive as valuable.

Why else would they spend their time on it? There’s so much more out there and believe you me, there’s more out there to distract someone that pose challenges to keeping a steady focus.

Fortunately for the academe, new technologies have come to the proverbial rescue and have made it easier to get attention, keep it and instill knowledge.

Gone are the days (in most places) of the old guard imposing point and click presentations. Our world is now full of rich multimedia audio visual productions that wow and stimulate audiences. They teach, they captivate and they entertain.

However, you might say that the content presented is only as good as the presenter is an entertainer, or, narrator.

Again, and most fortunately for us, technology has provided yet another way to aid poor presenters by employing the addition of a “choose your own adventure” style solution that is entertaining, effective and persuasive… dare I say, even interactive.

What is this catalyst?

Voice over narration.

You see, the use of voice over solves nearly all of the problems a presenter faces in the heat of battle:

A voice over connects deeply with listeners.

A voice over doesn’t get tired, clear their throat, take break to drink, or have stage fright.

A voice over won’t get lost in the presentation or stumble on words.

A voice over makes points clearly and effectively.

A voice over finds a way to enliven the words so that you don’t have to

When looking for someone to narrate your powerpoint presentation or slideshow, check out the voice over marketplace online to find the right voice for your project.

There are literally thousands of people out there who do this for a living so you won’t have any trouble locating a professional voice talent. Either do a search using your favorite browser or just go straight to Voices.com and use the voice talent search engine, browse demos or post a job for best results.

10 Reasons Why you Should Incorporate Firewall and Nat Traversal Into your VoIP or Internet Communication Products

August 7, 2005 · Posted in SIP · Comment 

Increased penetration of broadband Internet is driving the adoption of voice

over Internet Protocol (VoIP) both for consumer and business markets, propelling

VoIP to be the preferred mode of communications. High quality multimedia

communications along with rich presence, universal mobility and availability,

and lower cost are some of the benefits VoIP brings to end-users. For operators,

it promises new revenues from new and converged services, service bundling,

increased customer loyalty, and lower capital and operation expenses by building

and running a single IP-based network for all communications services.

Ironically, the main driving force behind VoIP adoption also poses one of the

biggest challenges – VoIP calls do not work well in many broadband situations

for NATs and Firewalls break VoIP. This is why I have assembled a top 10 list of

reasons why you should incorporate Eyeball’s AnyFirewall solution into your VoIP

or internet communication products.

    1. 100% traversal of NATs, UPnP gateways, firewalls and web-proxies.

    2. Most comprehensive implementation of the IETF standards STUN, TURN and ICE.

    3. Minimal scalability costs with near 100% peer-to-peer media transport in UDP networks.

    4. Fast call setup and low delay media transport.

    5. Works with 3rd party signaling stacks (SIP, XMPP etc.) and media engines.

    6. Available in multiple platforms including Windows, Linux. Pocket PC and other embedded platforms.

    7. Complete solution comprising of client-side SDK and scalable carrier-grade server.

    8. Small footprint suitable for web and embedded applications.

    9. Field proven over several years with various router models and vendors.

    10. Enables NAT traversal into any VoIP application, service or device.

    For more information visit www.eyeball.com or e-mail sales@eyeball.com

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