VON 2007 convention in San Jose California

AMD showing Barcelona slides

AMD showing Opteron on a blade

Nextcom extreme mobile computing

Nextcom extreme mobile computing

Nextcom extreme mobile computing angle 2

Nextcom extreme mobile computing angle 2

Aculab Prosody X cPCI

Aculab Prosody X PCI

Video on the Net Pavilion

SpectraLink (purchased by Polycom) presence at Digium/Asterisk Booth

SpectraLink (purchased by Polycom) presence at Digium/Asterisk Booth

SpectraLink DECT cordless phones

SpectraLink DECT cordless phones are more scalable than Wi-Fi phones because up to 80 of these phones can be simultaneously used in a 10 MHz wide band in the 1.9 GHz range. These phones terminate to a box that supports 8 phones at a time and connects to your VoIP infrastructure using SIP. Wi-Fi phones that use SpectraLink SVP (SpectraLink Voice Prioritization) wireless QoS can only support around 12 phones in comparison but allow you to use your own Wi-Fi infrastructure.

SpectraLink DECT phone on the left, Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz phone on the right

Polycom's presence at the Digium/Asterisk booth

Digium/Asterisk booth

Digium had a very large presence at the VON trade show. Digium is the creator of Asterisk Open Source PBX.

Digium PCI cards

These Digium PCI cards turn PC servers in to telephony PSTN gateways.

Mark Spencer, founder and CTO of Digium

Mark Spencer is the founder and CTO of Digium and the creator of the wildly popular Asterisk Open Source PBX. Asterisk has grown from a small but innovative project a few years ago to something that has attracted massive support from the VoIP and Telephony world. The Digium booth was filled with other companies partnering with Digium and Asterisk.

Mark Spencer holding the Asterisk Development box

Trixbox

Trixbox has one of the most popular Asterisk distributions wrapped up in a simple-to-use self installer CD. You simply insert the CD and install everything you need to get Asterisk running. Asterisk as since created a similar project with AsteriskNOW.

Trixbox all-in-one VoIP PBX/Telephony solution

Trixbox created their all-in-one VoIP PBX/Telephony solution for $999 with everything pre-configured.

Trixbox PBX shown in the rack

Polycom SoundPoint IP 330 and 320

Polycom announced two new SIP phones, the SoundPoint IP 330 and 320.

Polycom HD Conferencing products

Polycom HD conferencing solution

IP Unity booth

Conference floor

Birds eye view of the VON trade show floor

Dialogic

Dialogic--shown here with former Intel employees

Dialogic hardware

Dialogic hardware

Dialogic hardware

ClearOne conferencing phones

ATA (Analog Telephony Adapters

ATA (Analog Telephony Adapters) that have dropped to the $20 price range.

Linksys

Linksys (division of Cisco Systems) shows up VoIP products.

Oracle communications showing off VoIP products

AAstra booth

Cantata booth

CommuniGate and Ditech

Dice showing its presence

SNOM shows off VoIP phones

SNOM showed off its VoIP phones.

Phoenix audio

Phoenix audio showing off its speaker phones.

Phoenix Quatro

No pricing announced

Phoenix Solo microphone with noise cancellation

This device lists for $130.

Phoenix Duet PCS noise cancellation speaker and Microphon

Phoenix Duet PCS noise cancellation speaker and Microphone lists at $150. It will compete with the Polycom Communicator C100S. The Duet has the advantage of hardware based noise/echo cancellation which means it can be used in any Operating System including Linux, Mac OS, and Vista. Polycom Communicator currently only supports Windows using software echo cancellation and Vista support won't be available until Q3 of this year.