| Tux helps cut phone bills |
Feb. 07, 2003
(PR excerpt) -- Quicknet Technologies has announced the first Linux commercial PC-to-Phone supported using GnomeMeeting.Org.
Using Quicknets Linux Special Edition products in combination with GnomeMeeting, users can now make and receive voice calls over the Internet with Quicknets MicroTelco VoIP services using a standard telephone set.
"By integrating Quicknets worldwide Voice-over-IP services and hardware, the open source drivers for Quicknets cards included in the Linux kernel, the OpenH323 project and GnomeMeeting we can now provide the Linux user with an Open Source, easy to use, low cost and very high quality service for making Internet based calls worldwide", commented Stacey Reineccius, President of Quicknet Technologies.
Benefits and features:- Low cost PC-to-Phone calling worldwide
- FREE PC-to-PC calling (using MicroTelco)
- Video Conferencing point to point
- Receive calls while online from other users
- QoS Features and Special DSP co-processing support provides
- PSTN-like Voice Quality Service
- Works alongside existing sound cards (sound card not required)
- Fast and easy installation & set-up
GnomeMeeting allows Linux users to videoconference with industry standard H.323 applications such as the Microsoft NetMeeting program for Windows. The program has proved extremely popular with Linux users, and is now included in many Linux distributions including RedHat, Mandrake and SuSE worldwide. Todays Linux community is estimated to be 18 million users.
PC-to-Phone and PC-to-PC calls on Linux PCs are enabled thanks to combined efforts open-source projects GnomeMeeting.org and OpenH323.
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GnomeMeeting version 0.96 will be included standard in the Red Hat v8.1 and Mandrake v9.1 releases this Spring.
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