Last week, the air around here was filled with many boisterous “Ahoy matey!”-s, “Yo ho ho!”-s and “ARRRRRRR”-s as the Vancouver-based CounterPath team channeled their inner Jack Sparrows for a pirate-themed scavenger hunt. Here at CounterPath, we think it’s pretty important take a break from making software every once in awhile to kick back and [...]
August 18, 2011
How to Get VoIPing on your iPhone or iPad in 5 Easy Steps
You’ve heard about the advantages of using a VoIP service to make calls – it’s cheaper, cooler, and hey, did we mention cheaper? – but it always seemed like such a complicated process, right? Well, not anymore. Now you can get on the VoIPing wagon in 5 quick and painless steps – even if you [...]
August 12, 2011
CounterPath at ClueCon 2011
I attended Cluecon this week in Chicago. Check out the CounterPath twitter feed to review comments and photos. I arrived on Monday morning before the show started. My original plan was to spend the day in our Chicago office, but that didn’t work out since I was able to attend a training class on OpenSIPS. [...]
August 5, 2011
How to Add Facebook or Twitter to Your Bria Desktop Softphone
Did you know you can view Facebook, Twitter, or just about any web page directly within your Bria desktop softphone? It’s true. And adding them to Bria is easy! Here’s how. Step 1: From the main toolbar, select Softphone > Preferences Step 2: Within the Preferences window, select Advanced from the menu on the left. [...]
July 28, 2011
That “A-ha” Moment
I was speaking to a group of customers who had seen our recent announcement about our new Client Configuration Server and patent, and wanted to understand more about why we connected the two in the same statement. At some point during our discussion, there was one of those “A-ha” moments. You know, when that fog-bound [...]
July 15, 2011
Carrier Grade: Bonding, Virtual Interfaces and VLANs
CounterPath has recently been adding new services and devices to our Boston Pop Infrastructure. We have had some situations where we exceeded the number of physical interfaces with respect to the number of bonded [protected] interfaces we would like to deploy on an individual server. This led us down the path to review, and improve [...]
July 13, 2011
The Evolution of X-Lite is Creating a Revolution of Over-The-Top (OTT) Services
X-Lite, our free softphone product, is known worldwide as the leading VoIP endpoint. It has been downloaded millions of times and connects people across the globe. Many of the features and direction of X-Lite has come from our user community. Since the initial release of X-Lite in 2003, our users’ input has helped grow the [...]






August 26, 2011
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