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Vocalocity for Small Businesses

Source: www.voip-news.com

Vocalocity says that it’s bringing the summer vacation back. How? By providing a VoIP service for small businesses that lets users choose when to be available and when not.

According to TMC:

Users can easily decide when and how they are reached both inside and outside the office with Vocalocity’s Internet phone service for small businesses. Business people and employees on the move can now have as much or as little access to day-to-day operations and tasks as desired with facilities such as call forwarding, voicemail to e-mail and integration of a cell phone with the office phone.
Vocalocity’s service comes with now bag or baggage as there is no expensive equipment to install. Companies only need to purchase full-feature Internet phones for around $150, company officials say. To use the phone, all you need to do is to connect it to the Internet. The initial investment for comparable systems may cost three times as much and require businesses to install complex equipment, which is often expensive to maintain, company officials say.

So, Vocalocity is bringin’ the turn-off, eh? I thought you could just . . . um . . . turn off your methods of communication. Or is self-control on the outs too?

Published on August 7th, 2008 under , , , ,

Load Balancer for Asterisk and VoIP, from VocalScape

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

VoIP IP Telephony, snapvoip.blogspot.com.
Via PRNEWS WIRE/yahoo

VocalScape Networks announced today that they have released a load balancer for VoIP IP Telephony usage.
The Vocalscape Load Balancer began as an open source project which was adopted and improved upon by Vocalscape. It was made compliant with Asterisk, a popular open source PBX, and the algorithm was revised to more evenly distribute calls. Previously, the Load Balancer would send calls to a primary server and only when the primary server was overburdened would calls be sent to additional servers. The new algorithm balances the load by evenly distributing the calls between the servers. As an additional benefit, the Load Balancer provides failover capabilities. If a server is not responding, the Load Balancer will route all calls to servers that are functional.

"Vocalscape has developed the Load Balancer to meet our customers’ needs," commented Ron McIntyre, President of Vocalscape. "As our customers grow their user base, they will need to add additional servers to handle the higher volume of calls. The Vocalscape Load Balancer will allow them to evenly share the load among multiple servers."

The earliest known (to me) SIP load balancer was at Vovida.org. May be this is the one they improved. Vovida Org was one of the pioneering VoIP opensource sites that became less functional. Follow the links to get an idea of how it was like, to develop and write VoiP applications in those days (Ha! it was only 5-6 years ago).

Links;
Vocalscape
SIP Load Balancer at Vovida.org
Yahoo news


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