#VUC624 – Chad Hart : Voxbone and WebRTC
Voxbone, a long-time VUC supporter, is a wholesale SIP trunk and DID provider for more than 60 countries. (They provide our local rate dial-ins.) Chad Hart, Head of Strategic Products at Voxbone (and...
View Article#VUC625 – The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Tech in 2016
As 2016 winds to a close, and the holiday season drives possible guests into seclusion, we assemble our regular panel to consider notable advances & embarrassments in tech from 2016. An open...
View Article#VUC626 – Good, Bad, Ugly, Part Two
For better or worse, Randy’s back, and hopefully James Body, too, so it’s the VUC Office Party! We spoke of Facebook, Samsung, Pulse SMS, travel, roaming and so much more.
View Article#VUC627 – Update on SUB2r from 2r1y
Previously, on VUC… The SUB2R camera is modular by design, with swappable sensors and optics. Configurable from 720p30 to 2160p30, it delivers high-quality images over USB 3 or Gigabit Ethernet...
View Article#VUC628 – Immmr Communications Platform
Immmr is a unique communication service, aiming to bring back voice calling to everyone’s life by making it as easy, hassle-free and accessible as possible. Immmr unifies voice, video calls and...
View Article#VUC629 – Catching up with the Null Team!
We catch up with Yate co-founder Diana Cionoiu who will share what they’ve been up to since her last VUC visit. We are talking about this page: http://yatebts.com/products/ and...
View Article#VUC630 – The State of IoT with Stacey Higginbotham
There are so many questions about the IoT. Should we all be addressing Alexa as merely “Computer?” Why does she seem to like my wife better than me? What’s the point of an IoT-enabled hairbrush? Or a...
View Article#VUC631 – Open Mic, Andy Abramson, Jay Carpenter
We managed to attract good guests at the last minute, including Andy Abramson, Jay Carpenter with special sound effects from BKW. Discussion went from travel tips to blockchain and back. Wide-ranging,...
View Article#VUC632 – Get Ready for Kamailio World 2017 with Allison Smith
Allison Smith, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Kathleen King and a cast of… many join us to talk about Kamailio World 2017 in Berlin.
View Article#vuc633 – ClueCon Preview with Kathleen King
Our friend Kathleen King of FreeSWITCH fame joins us again to talk about what’s up with ClueCon and in general with FreeSWITCH.
View Article#vuc634 – Doc Searls: What happens when companies agree to our terms?
We welcome Doc Searls, widely read blogger and journalist, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge. This week on VUC, Doc asks (and...
View Article#vuc636 – Encryption with seald.io
This week, our guest is Timothée Rebours of Seald, an application that allows you to easily end-to-end encrypt (RSA-4096 and AES-256) all your messages, documents, posts, anything you wish to protect.
View Article#vuc637 – Kamailio World Berlin 2017 with Allison Smith
Allison Smith chats with us about Kamailio World and Allison prompts for FreeSWITCH project. Alan Quayle stops by for a preview of TADHack Mini in Orlando.
View Article#vuc638 – Fight Robocallers with YouMail
YouMail CEO Alex Quilici joins us to talk about fighting robocalls on US phone numbers. YouMail also provides the YouMail Robocall Index, which estimates and tracks the size of the robocall problem in...
View Article#vuc639 – Open Discussion News & Views
Discussed Links M-jamesbody: https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-dev-con/wiki/OsmoCon2017#Venue M-jamesbody: http://www.compulab.com/products/ M-jamesbody: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ mjgraves:...
View Article#vuc640 – IETF Remote Participation with Meetecho
In this session, Lorenzo Miniero tells us how, in just a few years, Meetecho has gone from a simple experiment to the official remote participation tool for face-to-face IETF meetings. He touches upon...
View Article#vuc641 – The Future of SIMs
Rudolf van der Berg joins Tim Panton and the regulars to talk about the future of SIMs.
View Article#VUC643 – Algo VPN Project
Recent moves by the FCC in the US has more people than ever considering the use of a VPN as a way to protect their online habits from being monetized by their ISP. This week we are joined by Dan Guido...
View ArticleVUC644 – Cisco Spark
Cisco Spark is said to be “a secure space to create, share, and get work done together”. We welcome Lead Software Engineer and longtime friend Vlad Markov to talk about it. We also discussed the SS7...
View ArticleVUC645 – MediaSoup: A WebRTC-based SFU Implemented as a Node.JS Module
This week we’ll be joined by Iñaki Baz Castillo and José Luis Millán, the founders of MediaSoup. In this project these gentlemen have created an open source, WebRTC-based Selective Forwarding Unit...
View ArticleVUC646 – Google Home & more
Due to network connectivity issues, the talk with Dr. Richard Stallman will be next Friday, May 26th at 12 Noon EDT. This week, we used Jitsi Meet to gather some friends and talk about Google Home...
View ArticleVUC647 – Dr Richard Stallman
Known for starting the Free Software Foundation and for his contributions to GNU/Linux, Stallman has been a vocal free software advocate for the past two decades. The Jitsi Meet conference session...
View ArticleVUC648 – The SUB2r Camera Achieves 4k30
There are cases where the built-in camera on your MacBook simply won’t do. In fact, there are times when the common Logitech webcams may not suffice. As requirements become more specific the available...
View ArticleVUC649 – Simon Woodhead of Simwood
Simon joins us for an update on what Simwood has been up to lately. The regulars want to talk also about small/cheap computers and perhaps Apple’s latest announcements and Google’s RCS dreams. Simon’s...
View ArticleVUC650 – 2600hz – Kazoo with Darren Schreiber
Guest Darren Schreiber will be talking about their vision for a unified app exchange that will allow users to create their own applications in conjunction with Kazoo and resell to the community. Also...
View ArticleVUC651 – Jitsi Meet with Emil Ivov
Emil joins us, on Jitsi Meet of course, streaming live to YouTube Live for a catch up session on the progress of the project.
View ArticleVUC652 – netBlazr with Brough Turner
Brough Turner is co-founder and CTO of netBlazr, a wireless Internet service provider delivering 500/500 Mbps or 300/300 Mbps Internet access services at a reasonable price with “no contracts, no...
View ArticleVUC653 – IoT, LBRY and more Blockchain
Tim Panton has a brief chat with Vimla Appadoo of FuturEverything We discuss FreeSWITCH with Kathleen King, and move on to a demo of LBRY a media-sharing platform based on blockchain technology. The...
View ArticleVUC655 – SwitchRTC with CEO and co-founder Amir Zmora
High Scale, Real-Time, Interactive Video Broadcasting to the Browser SwitchRTC is a solution for real-time distribution of video to a large audience. It handles real-time, low delay, interactive video...
View ArticleVUC656 – Serval Project with Paul Gardner-Stephen
We chat with Paul Gardner-Stephen, founder of the Serval Project. Serval is a telecommunications system comprised of at least two mobile phones that are able to work outside of regular mobile phone...
View ArticleVUC657 – ClueCon 2017 is Almost Here!
This week we are joined by Team Freeswitch, who are in the final stages of preparing for ClueCon 2017 at the Swissotel in Chicago. We’ll have an event preview from Kathleen King, Anthony Minessale, Ken...
View ArticleVUC658 – DNS Response Policy Zone with Dr. Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie (@paulvixie) is this week’s guest. Dr. Vixie was inaugurated into the Internet Hall of Fame as one of the “Individuals from around the world who have made significant contributions to the...
View ArticleVUC659 – Cluecon 2017 Wrap & Some New Faces
This week we’ll look back at Cluecon 2017, which was last week in Chicago. Given the intensity of the event, much of the Freeswitch core team are on a well-deserved, post-event hiatus. Nonetheless,...
View ArticleVUC660 – GNU Taler.net Payment System
GNU Taler is an electronic payment system under development at Inria. They expect to make it operational in 2017. You can learn about Taler on this website, try the demo and look at developer and API...
View ArticleVUC661 Mastodon Creator Eugen Rochko and Masto.host Hugo Gameiro
This week, meet Mastodon Creator Eugen Rochko (@Gargron) Mastodon is a free, open-source federated social network currently has over 806,000 user inscriptions on 1,174 known instances. While it isn’t...
View ArticleVUC662 – When in Roaming (USA)
The eclipse changed nothing about roaming on AT&T and T-Mobile with a dual SIM phone. More live on the day!
View ArticleVUC663 – Introducing COMMCOM 2018
This week we’ll be talking with Dan Jenkins. Dan is the founder of Nimble Ape, and a self-described web developer. Despite this fact, he’s a regular speaker at well-established pseudo-telecom...
View ArticleVUC664 – Quality-Assured Voice and Video over Commodity Broadband
It’s been a few years since Martin Geddes has joined the VUC. Today, we’ll be talking about Just Right Networks. He publishes an excellent newsletter, you can subscribe to it here. Martin Geddes is a...
View ArticleVUC665 – Smarter IVR and Astricon 2017
Allison has a new YouTube Channel! If you’ve ever entered your pin number into your telephone banking account, you’ve probably heard the voice of Allison Smith guiding you through the call. If you’ve...
View ArticleVUC666 – Does Anyone Know What Time it is?
Who was at Astricon? You’d be surprised! Nir Simionovich and Eric Klein of Greenfield.tech join regulars James Body, who somehow was back in the UK, Corrado Mella, Andy Smith and Michael Graves.
View ArticleVUC668 – Improve Network Costs and Stability with Real-time Call Control
Randy Weinberger joins to talk about what they’re up to at Icehook. At the end of the discussion, we talked briefly about an Android carrier signal evaluation tool called Network Cell Info Lite. The...
View ArticleVUC669 – Evaluating Wireless Carrier Coverage
Unless you spend every moment of every day with a friend, don’t ask him/her about wireless carrier coverage. It’s a very personal issue, depending on where you live, work, play and travel. The panel...
View ArticleVUC670 – Dangerous Doorbells
Ring does not ring any bells here. The gang looks at home security and surveillance via wifi and LAN-connected cameras, doorbells and SIP devices.
View ArticleVUC671 – Beyond Windows, OS X & Linux: Chromebooks and Tablets
What is your IT profile? What are the tools best suited for what you do? We’ll argue about this Friday November 10th and hopefully draw some worthwhile lines in the sand. A diverse panel will dissects...
View ArticleVUC672 – Dialpad
In 2006, a company called Grand Central launched with what was then a unique service: one phone number that could ring several phones. Just one year later, Google acquired the company and, in 2009,...
View ArticleVUC675 – Zoiper 5
Download Zoiper 5 for Windows, macOS and Linux. The application has been designed with attention to detail, brand new UI that is easy to use and stays out of your way, so you can focus on what matters...
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