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By Channel Manager Andy Ogg

Are you an IT solutions provider looking for a reliable voice solution to provide to your clients? Are you a telecom interconnect specialist looking for a Hosted Voice Solution to compete in your market? Or, perhaps you are a business consultant working in a specific vertical, and you need a voice solution that provides features unique to that vertical.

This blog is by Eric Tamme, member of the OnSIP Engineering Team

What is a codec?

Codec is short for “coder-decoder”. A codec is a program, or an implementation of a algorithm, which converts an analog input signal, like your voice, to a digital signal by sampling it according to the algorithm. The codec can also take a sampled stream from a matching codec, and decode the samples back to a similar analog stream that was input originally.

Here is an example codec called PCM:

Today, Counterpath and Vidtel announced interoperability between the Vidtel video conferencing service and Bria ‘enabled’ computers and iPhones. Press release found here.

Recently, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research announced that the trade show industry was growing, with the number of trade show attendees jumping 3.7% in the third quarter of 2010 and the number of exhibitors by 3.6%, according to the CEIR index. With increasing attendance and sponsorships at such events, the product choices presented to participants will be diverse and numerous.

By Channel Manager Andy Ogg

Are you an IT solutions provider looking for a reliable voice solution to provide to your clients? Are you a telecom interconnect specialist looking for a Hosted Voice Solution to compete in your market? Or, perhaps you are a business consultant working in a specific vertical, and you need a voice solution that provides features unique to that vertical.

Several of you who have already utilized OnSIP to obtain free SIP addresses know that it's a great way to communicate via VoIP for free.

Steven Suslick at E2 Computers spoke to us last week about why he chooses OnSIP for his customers. He recently signed on to become an OnSIP Agent and had published unbiased first impressions of OnSIP. He hopes to make a big impact in the 1st quarter of 2012.

Recently, The VAR Guy, anonymous owner of the a top VAR website, published a Top 100 list of Channel Partner Conferences for 2012. At OnSIP, we're always looking to expand and grow our agent base and conferences are a great way to network and showcase our great phone service.

‘Time to Re-invent the Desk Phone’ is an interesting piece by Verge1 Consulting President and telecom conference frequenter, Dave Michels. In the post, he first reviews the various shortfalls of the three most commonly used types of phones in today’s office—desk phones, mobile phones, and soft phones—and then describes a list of features missing in current devices that, if implemented, would take the business phone to the next generation.

This post is by Matt Barrett, member of the support team.