Slashdot has a current discussion about which domestic router is best for Quality of Service (QOS) provision for Voice over IP.

The original question posed is by someone using a Linksys WRT54G wireless broadband router with Bittorrent and other high-bandwidth applications to consider. Unfortunately, the WRT54G isn’t quite cutting it when used alongside Vonage.

Inevitably for Slashdot, there is some gravitation toward open-source products. Open firmware for the WRT54G is suggested by some while another comment mentions that m0n0wall, an open-source firewall VPN distribution, can be deployed on relatively low-end commodity hardware and provides the type of QoS required.

Blonde 2.0 for Mashables.com brings us news that mobile p2p VoIP provider fring has released it’s API for third party developers.

This will enable others to develop new applications and add-ons for the fring platform.

The fring platform supports mobile devices such as the Symbian Series 60, Sony Ericsson UIQ, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and the iPhone.

As a network, fring also integrates with Skype, AIM, Twitter, Google Talk and the industry standard SIP protocol.

US Senate bill HR 3043 (New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008) has been passed into law and requires traditional telephone companies to make available access to 911 services for Voice over IP operators.

An article at VoIP Weblog suggest that the old telcos may have actually been blocking access to 911 for some VoIP operators. Smithonvoip is similarly aghast that 911 services which exist to provide access to emergency services could have been blocked.

Snom is to release it’s M3 DECT / SIP handset system for the North American market and TMCNet has full details and review.

The Snom M3 allows for multiple DECT wireless handsets with full-color graphical displays to make and receive SIP calls over any compliant network.

The Snom M3 system involves a base-station which provides network and control facilities including a web confiiguration interface. Up to 8 individual wireless DECT handsets can be connected to each base-station. The base-station can handle up to three simultaneous calls.

Product video:

The Snom M3 is to be available in the USA as of June 2008.

Asterisk, the lead open-source digital Private Branch Exchange software has released version 1.4.21.

This is a regular bug fix version, a complete changelog can be found here.