Comments on: Squawk Box August 25 – Talking Phweet with Stuart Henshall

By: My Year End Review and Thanks | stuart henshall

My Year End Review and Thanks | stuart henshall — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:49:16 +0000

[...] Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy aka PhoneBoy, Michael Bauwens, Phil Wolff and Jim of SkypeJournal and Alec Saunders. Jeff Pulver also promoted Phweet and stimulated a neat thread around Phweet and Ham [...]

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, David.

By: David Beckemeyer

David Beckemeyer — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:43:39 +0000

Fun Squawk Box Alec. Thanks for hosting.

One small correction to some information on the Podcast recording. The podcast refers to the PhoneGnome platform as "Asterisk-based." Asterisk is a great platform and we use it at PhoneGnome in various ways, but we have spent over 10 man years developing proprietary PhoneGnome system software and so there are far more parts of the PhoneGnome platform that are not "Asterisk" – we have our own custom SIP core, API, and platform layers etc.

The following diagram may provide some further details regarding the platform: http://www.phonegnome.com/images/TelEArchitecture…

By: Voice of VOIPSA

Voice of VOIPSA — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:33:44 +0000

The reason why (probably) you can use Phweet on a plane when Skype is blocked…

So how did Andy Abramson make a call using Phweet on the new Aircell Gogo Internet service on American Airlines planes? Why was the call not blocked like Skype or Sightspeed calls were?
As I discussed in my last post, VoIP calls have certain network c…

By: Voice of VOIPSA

Voice of VOIPSA — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:18:14 +0000

How Aircell is (probably) blocking VoIP phone calls on planes (hint… VoIP Whack-A-Mole)…

How is Aircell blocking VoIP phone calls from systems like Skype, SightSpeed and Gizmo? (And how did Andy get through with Phweet?)
Ever since last week’s announcement of the “Gogo Inflight Internet Service” provided to American Airli…