On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:10:24 -0500, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: >While I appreciate the benefits of wideband audio/G722/etc and your >efforts to educate people about it during the VoIP User's Conference, >I wince at the thought of hearing a sales pitch. At the very least I >find some of this company's existing marketing literature suspect (big >surprise there, right): > >"ZipDX is the only audio conferencing service available today that can >support the HD Voice capabilities of the Polycom IP 6000 and IP 7000. >Our system was designed from the ground up to take full advantage of >these devices. You can also experience HDVoice on Polycom's >SoundPoint(R) IP-550, IP-560 and IP-650." > >taken from: > >http://www.zipdx.com/Info/PolycomSS > >another gem: > >"Patented No-Codes Conferencing" > >Apparently they've patented dialing out to conference participants >and/or reading Caller ID/ANI to bypass the pin. More fantastic work >from the US Patent Office! > >I know there is more to "HD Voice" than G.722 but I also know that at >least (in the FOSS world alone) FreeSWITCH supports conferencing in >G.722. Pingtel's sipx uses FreeSWITCH as a conference engine. I >would bet with some investigation various other commercial products >support it too. > >This was originally posted to various Asterisk-related groups and I >certainly realize FreeSWITCH isn't Asterisk. I just doubt that the >CEO from a company that makes questionable claims such as this is >going to contribute much to what is (usually) an otherwise interesting >discussion about (largely) FOSS technology. More than likely you're >going to get a sales pitch for their hosted service, which at >$0.10/min per participant is expensive. I understand they offer other >conferencing features but it's pretty clear they are leading with >their "exclusive" support for wideband audio. > >I'm sorry for the sarcastic tone and poor attitude but I'm getting >increasingly frustrated with sales and marketing goons infiltrating >what are otherwise excellent opportunities for *purely* technical >discussions. Asterisk-Biz is overrun, they appear on Asterisk-Users >from time to time, and they've all but taken over most conferences. > >Come on guys, don't let it happen to the VoIP User's Conference!! ;) >
Kristian, I do appreciate your position. However, we've always been happy to engage manufacturers as guests on VUC calls. We're not falling prey to a simple sales pitch. We're trying to spread the experience-base WRT wideband audio. The call is NOT about ZipDX. It's about wideband audio. It just happens that David is willing to participate and can speak from the experience of deploying a significant wideband installation commercially. This call has been in the planning stages for a while. If our guest didn't have the technical depth to address our group we simply would not have invited him. Further, I think that we have a pretty good record of letting commercial parties speak their piece without going overboard. The recorded archives should prove that out. The realm of VoIP includes a lot of territory, both FOSS and commercial. Then there's that middle ground where commercial entities interact with FOSS projects. We simply try to address topics of interest to our participants, wherever that may go. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com http://blog.mgraves.org o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves fwd 54245 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
