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First photos over BGAN

Yesterday as well as talking on Skype, Paul and Carlos set up the BGAN terminal on the hotel roof and sent us back the first set of photos. Paul’s Asus Eee PC 901 was running as a web server (using … Continue reading

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Asterisk running peer to user

We’ve been developing VoIP support for ERA in the Portable VoWLAN Project (funded by JISC). JANET, through their Portable WLAN Programme, are helping us to investigate backhaul links so that our field students could access resources over the internet. We’ve … Continue reading

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Nokia LD-3W with Ricoh Caplio 500SE

We’ve just tried a Nokia LD-3W bluetooth GPS dongle with the Ricoh Caplio 500SE camera we’ve been using for taking photographs – and it rocks. The LD-3W paired with the Ricoh bluetooth really easily (using the default PIN of 0000), … Continue reading

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Cheap IP cameras: the Edimax IC-3010WG

A much cheaper solution for IP video than the Axis Q7401, the Edimax IC-3010WG network camera is only ยฃ80 from use-IP.co.uk. For your money, you get a white plastic camera with a choice of wired or wifi network connections with … Continue reading

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First look at the Axis video encoder.

Yesterday was our first opportunity to take the brand new Axis Q7401 video encoder for a test drive. It’s a well engineered and rugged unit which takes composite video and turns it into an M-JPEG or h.264 MPEG-4 stream. The … Continue reading

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Trunking calls between Asterisk servers with IAX2.

At the end of last week we managed to create an IAX to IAX trunk between 2 asterisk servers on the local wired LAN. IAX trunking is a way to connect multiple Asterisk servers and allow clients of different servers … Continue reading

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MeetMe testing

Last Wednesday we did some testing of our Asterisk MeetMe setup, at dekspc medialab in London. Setting up the Asterisk server on the local wired LAN and assembling an assortment of 6 SIP clients, using Ekiga on both Windows and … Continue reading

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Set up Asterisk conference calling with MeetMe.

I made my first (2-way) conference call on Asterisk/Meetme just now. To enable MeetMe with Asterisk, you first need to edit your meetme.conf in /etc/asterisk/ , mine looks like this:

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