Open Voice Platform

Cheap International Calls with best Voice quality using AIM Call Out !

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:54:28 GMT

"Call landline or mobile phones in United States, Canada and worldwide for as low as 1¢/min"

The success of our free worldwide calling Mother's day campaign demonstrated a huge demand for cheap international calling.We listened to your request for cheap calls and are happy to announce that the per minute calling rates to many of the 200+ worldwide destinations have been reduced substantially.
Visit http://call-out.aim.com/rates to find out about our new rates to all these countries.

Highlighting just a few of our impressive per minute rates: United Kingdom(1¢), Canada(1¢), China(1.5¢), United States(1.6¢), India(5.9¢), France(1.5¢), Australia(2¢), Germany(1.5¢), Sweden(1.5¢), Argentina(Buenos Aires-(1¢), Hong Kong(1¢) all these with premium voice quality.

We do not ever compromise on call quality and do not force flat rates like regular telephone or voip companies. There are no value added taxes ,no connection fees ,no monthly bills and no hidden charges of any kind.The only exception to that is for Canadians residents, who will be charged sales tax at the time of credit purchase.

International calling has never been easier and AIM Call Out can be usedfrom any phone to call 200+ countries without changing companies. Users can enjoy great customer service , highest quality connections, low rates, plenty of value added features and crystal clear call quality, anywhere they are.

AIM Call makes it easy to for low cost calls to any country worldwide because it can be used from any kind of phone (home, business, Mobile, Internet phone or even an enterprise ip pbx). With the recent launch of our Open Voice Platform , users can make calls with their existing home phones using TA's , Mobile Wifi phones, IP phones or even with a web based flash phone like Tringme.
Customers will also get on-line account management and call history so they can see what they spend on each call.

Visit our voice portal sip devices page http://voice.aol.com/SIP-Client-List to see the list of clients we have already certified after testing them in our lab.

Finally i would like to thank everyone for providing extensive feedback & support over the last few months and would encourage everyone to subscribe to my blog using any rss reader so that you can benefit from all the wonderful features that we are about to announce shortly for all users worldwide. One feature that we currently working on now is a total worldwide inbound calling service to compliment the AIM Call Out product.

For more details visit our AIM Call portal @ http://call-out.aim.com

Free Phone Calls from the Web Browser using AIM Call Out !

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:49:06 GMT

Flashphone now offers free calls to Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg).
For calls to all other countries worldwide users can make calls using their AIM Call Out account on Flashphone.

Flashphone is a SIP compatible softphone that works in the internet browser.
You don't need to install anything to make phone calls.Since flashphone uses HTTP for data transfer you won't have a problems with the firewall or NAT.
Users can make calls anywhere globally using any computer or even a Mobile Phone, the only thing that is required is access to the Internet.

It’s very easy to use AIM callout service from Flashphone.AIM Call users should first register at the flashphone.ru website .Registration is free for everyone.
Then use Flashphone Account Manager to add AOL as a VoIP provider.
In the VoIP Accounts section configure flashphone to use AIM Call Out by adding your AOL/AIM screename.
Now you can make calls worldwide to 200+ countries directly from any web browser.

Users can also initiate a video call to a video client such as X-Lite or even any SIP videophone device.The latest version of Zingaya Media Server supports video calls to SIP softphones or hardphones with H.263 video codec support.

Visit AIM Call Out : http://call-out.aim.com

Flashphone portal : http://flashphone.ru

Mobile Client: http://flashphone.ru/en/mobile (PDA's, iPhones, Mobile Phones will all be able to make calls over 3G or Wireless networks )
Facebook Callme button: http://apps.facebook.com/flashphone
igoogle gadget : http://www.flashphone.ru/flashphone.html

I just made a video of howto setup Flashphone with AIM Call Out

Visit my youtube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/VoIPalicious

Something like 99.1% of PCs and Macs have Flash installed, so basically you can take your voip credentials to any PC worldwide without having to install a softphone.

Happy Voiping !!

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AIM Call Out supports MAC Softphones for voip phone calls

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:19:43 GMT

AOL Desktop X-lite iSoftphone SjPhone

We have been getting a lot of requests to enable voip sip support for the MAC Soft phones.We have listened to your requests and now have enabled support for both Inbound and Outbound calling from these soft phones.Now users can make calls to any regular phone worldwide directly from their MAC computer.We have tested AIM CallOut and AIM Phoneline with some open sip mac softphones like X-lite, Eyebeam, Sjphone and iSoftphone.If you do not wish to download a software to your MAC, just make calls directly from your Safari, Firefox or Opera web browser using a Flashphone like Tringme.
If you are having problems using your MAC softphone client, let us know and we will test the software in our voice labs for any compatibility issues with our open sip gateway.

For your home office or small business, you can connect any sip phone or soft phone from the MAC to an open source telephony software like Asterisk or Freeswitch and make long distance International calls with cheap rates as low as 1¢/min

Note: Currently we have stopped new registrations for AIM Phoneline which had both inbound and outbound calling in one service .All existing AIM Phoneline customers can still receive free inbound calls but for Outbound calling to 200+ countries users must sign-up for AIM Call Out at http://call-out.aim.com

As always all calls between AIM Clients worldwide are always free !

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AIM Phoneline supports free Inbound Phone calls to any SIP Device !

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:44:56 GMT

"Great news for all our existing Aimphoneline users"

Now you can get free inbound calls to your favorite sip device (IP phones, Wifi phones) or even to Softphones like X-lite. Also if you have a regular phone , use any one our certified TA's listed on our Voice Portal and receive inbound calls .Aimphoneline users now have the ability go hands free with no headsets and without the need to run the AIM Client all the time on their computer.

To enable inbound calls for your sip device, just follow our AIM Call Out sip device instructions at http://http://voice.aol.com/SIP-Client-List and turn on registration in your client settings.Then sign-up for a free AIM Call Out account with your Aim Phoneline screename and setup a sip device password through the AIM call Out Dashboard .
Use the same password to setup your sip device and enjoy unlimited free inbound calls.

Now that you have a AIM Call Out account ,go ahead and add credit for a few dollars and call the whole world for as low as 1¢/min. http://call-out.aim.com

Happy Voiping !

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Free Phone calls worldwide during mother's day weekend with AIM Call Out !!

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:08:16 GMT

We are going to be offering free unlimited phone calls worldwide to this Mother's Day weekend, May 10th - 11th with AIM Call Out http://call-out.aim.com.Users can make as many calls as they want to more than 200 countries, using a headset & a microphone or by using your regular landline / Mobile phone or you can also use any SIP device including IP phones ,Telephone Adapters and wifi phones.
The list of devices supported by Aim Call Out can be found here http://voice.aol.com/SIP-Client-List
Users must set up an AIM Call Out account and add at least $5 in non-refundable call credit to get started. Users can then make as many calls as they want to more than 200 countries and will still have $5 to spend at the end of the free calls weekend.
WHEN: Users can make free calls between 6 a.m. EDT on Saturday, May 10th and 4 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 12th.
HOW: Users must have a free AIM screenname and use version 6.5 or higher of the AIM service which can be downloaded for free .Once users launch AIM they just click on the telephone icon at the base of the AIM Buddy List to get started.For more information on this offer pls visit http://call-out.aim.com/mothers-day

AIM Call Out supports SIP Trunking also using Open SIP stacks.

Wed, 14 May 2008 14:29:16 GMT

I want to take the time to answer some questions i recently got from some embedded software developers who wanted to know if we would support open sip stacks with our voice platform .The Open Voice platform consists of a number of service offerings, all based on open standards, that allow any application to use the AIM Call Out infrastructure to place calls from any standards-based hardware device, or, for a developer more important, any custom piece of software. This essentially allows you to build your own softphone or to integrate some sort of phone functionality into your line-of-business application. I would encourage everyone to visit my past blog article where I explain about our voice platform and the RFC's we support currently for this program.
Just a breif overview of SIP Trunking,
A SIP trunk is a service offered by an ITSP (Internet Telephony Service Provider), like AOL, that permits businesses that have a PBX installed to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) also outside the enterprise network by using the same connection as the Internet connection. SIP Trunking is the next-generation communication platform that gives businesses the ability to SCALE their voice solution gradually to meet their individual business needs, SIMPLIFY the administration of their network by reducing providers, and SAVE money by right-sizing their bloated telecom budget.

For enterprises wanting to make full use of their installed IP-PBXs and not only communicate over IP within the enterprise, but also outside the enterprise a SIP trunk provided by an ITSP like AOL to connect to the traditional PSTN network is the solution.Unlike traditional telephony, where bundles of physical wires were once delivered from the service provider to a business, a SIP trunk allows any company to replace these traditional fixed PSTN lines with IP connectivity to AOL Voice platform for PSTN termination. SIP trunks can offer significant cost-savings for enterprises, eliminating the need for local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN BRIs or PRIs .

Now for the good news, one of our engineers, Mark Blomsma from our developer network team has written an excellent article on how to write a .NET VoIP application that integrates with AIM Call Out. He used the sip.net framework and the Sipek sip phone, and has written a simple voip application that is interoperable with the AOL Voice network.
                         The Sipek phone is a VoIP engine powered by pjsip.org open SIP stack.Mark had to use Sipek SDK's since sip.net currently does not support any RTP stacks.In a nutshell the SipekSDK wraps a C DLL and offers a managed API that C# developers are able to use.Currently, the Sipek softphone supports a C# wrapper to connect to the pjsip stack.Another nice feature is that this Sipek wrapper can be used in other .NET projects, including Windows Mobile.
                       The code for setting up a connection to AIM Call Out using this sip.net programming stack can be found in Mark's blog

                        Finally I would encourage all developers using open sip stacks like NIST SIP, minisip, mjsip, opensipstack, osip2/exosip2, PhAPI, PJSIP, resiprocate, Sofia SIP, etc. writing their own application ,to use our open voice platform and provide us your feedback.

Interested developers can send me an email at opensip@aol.com if you would like to know more information on our voice platform . I can provide some AIM Call test accounts for people interested in testing your software or hardwarewith our open sip gateway.

For more details oh howto get started with AIM Call Out visit http://call-out.aim.com or our developer portal at http://dev.aol.com/api/aimcall .

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Free Internet Phone Calls with AIM

Mon, 05 May 2008 20:59:11 GMT

Nothing is better than instant messaging with your friends but sometimes when you need to get caught up, talking is easier than typing. So use the AIM Talk feature and have a voice conversation for free - hands-free. Forget long distance charges, talk to anyone around the world with AIM Talk free. Try it out with any of your AIM buddies.
Here’s how to do it:
1. Open an instant messaging window and choose your friend’s screen name just like you would to message them.
2. Click the “talk” button at the bottom of the IM window.
3. AIM will send the request to your friend and when they click “OK” you can start talking! It’s that easy.
        You’ll need a microphone and speakers, or a PC headset to hear your friend and let them hear you. It’s a PC-to-PC call and it’s free!
        When you want to call a friend’s home or mobile phone, check out our PC-to-phone service, AIM Call Out. It’s a pay-as-you go long distance service with a great voice quality at very low cost. You can dial your friend’s phone directly from AIM or use your regular phone and make calls with AIM Call webconnect feature.
     Read my last blog of how to make calls using your regular phone with the Webconnect feature.

Check out http://call-out.aim.com for more information.

If you have any questions about your free AIM Talk sessions, check the AIM troubleshooting information at:http://www.aim.com/help_faq/using/win/aimtalk.adp?aolp=

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How does the WebConnect feature work on AIM Call Out ?

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:24:17 GMT

I have been getting emails from several people asking how the AIM Call Out Webconnect feature works .
So here is the run down of how we make this happen.

Webconnect is a feature on AIM Call Out service that let's you talk using a regular phone and make low cost long distance/ International calls.

It’s easy to setup a Internet phone call with your regular phone.
Just goto your AIM Call Out dashboard http://https://dashboard.voice.aol.com,
and type your phone number and the phone number of your friend.
Your phone will ring and connect you to your friend’s phone.

For more details , visit http://call.aim.com

Drop me a line @ opensip@aol.com if anyone has any questions on this .

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AIM Call Out announcing support for Asterisk

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:18:55 GMT

I am are pleased to inform everyone that we are announcing support for the Asterisk open source telephony platform with our open sip gateway .I just finished testing a few Softphones and IP Phones behind my Asterisk server in our lab and so wanted to pass on the configuration information to everyone.To all the users , I do want to mention that there is a limitation of maximum number of simultaneous calls as per our fair usage policy.
Note: This configuation was tested with the complete source code for the most current Asterisk release 1.4.19.1

Asterisk Setup documentation for AIM Call Out can be found in our voice portal : http://voice.aol.com/devices/asterisk-14

There are several videos on you-tube to help users get started on this open source telephony platform that can be used at home or small business.Visit my youtube channel for related Asterisk videos : http://www.youtube.com/VoIPalicious

If you are using Free PBX for your business , visit this link from their article this week: http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=215

For more details on howto get started with AIM CallOut visit http://call-out.aim.com

We are currently working to provide support for an inbound calling service to compliment AIM Call Out , so stay tuned for that announcement.Let me know if anyone has any issues in setting up Asterisk server in your infrastructure.Drop me a line at opensip@aol.com if you have any questions or comments.

Tags: Asterisk, Free Telephony Software, Free phone software, free pbx, AIM Call Out, Asterisk calls, Asterisk setup, Asterisk providers .

Open Source Telephony anyone ?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:53:34 GMT

Great news for Asterisk , FreeSwitch , sipX ,CallWeaver ,YATE ,Trixbox users !

Our platform is compatible with open source telephony platforms.

Stay tuned for my instructions of how to setup Opensouce telephony softwares with our Voice Gateway.

I am thinking of testing the popular Asterisk PBX Software in our labs sometime soon.

Let me know in the comments tab below if you would like to see your open source applicated tested in our lab .

Tags: Asterisk, Talkswitch, FreeSwitch, YATE, Open SER, trixbox, sipX, CallWeaver.