October 13, 2010

Using Asterisk PBX for Web Conferencing

Category: Features,General,Information,Tips — Greg @ 5:23 pm

Today when organizations are distributed at various locations, getting everyone together is a bit difficult at times. For instance, in case of most of the organizations, sometimes half of the team of a company would be based somewhere in the US, and half in some other part of the world. In such cases, web conferencing is a savior! Web conferencing technology is now a mainstream medium through which individuals or groups can meet face-to-face in real time to interact.

Web conferencing technology supports sharing of slides (PDF and PPT), video, whiteboard, chat, voice using Asterisk PBX, and desktops.

Web Conferencing features include the following:
Asterisk based web conferencing allows instantaneous conference calling where the user can select any group of contacts, or any e-mail or calendar appointment and automatically initiate a conference call to all the recipients
• Web conferencing allows to join the Asterisk VOIP based voice conference from within the client using a built-in SIP phone
Hosted Asterisk based web conferencing allows chat with other users including private chat
• Web conferencing facilitates to view the presenter’s slides and cursor
• It helps share a video stream (webcam) with other participants
• Web conferencing also facilitates uploading of slides (PDF or any office document supported by Open Office)
• In web conferencing, the presenter can mute or eject listeners from the voice conference. In web conferencing, the presenter can share their desktop (yes, even on Linux).

Also, don’t forget to enjoy the benefits of the best application hosting solutions, such as hosted VOIP PBX, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, etc., which has become the preferred way for companies to implement business software.

October 10, 2010

WiMAX VoIP Rumble Down Under

Category: Information — Greg @ 5:13 pm

Words are going around about the most recent fight of WiMax against an Australian Internet Service Provider (ISP) named Buzz Broadband. Buzz Broadband did the Wi Max rollout and during the conference, call it a disaster. According to Airspan, the hardware supplier, the ISP was cheap and their deployment was under provisioned. According to the news, the ISP operator is unwilling to invest enough money to bring an outside expertise. Doubts are spreading around whether WiMax will still push the project through as the vendor (Airspan) and the ISP is no longer on speaking terms and an Australian WiMax operator branded his experience publicly as disaster 34