Cool Product Alert: Snom Vision Color Sidecar

by Cory Andrews on March 10, 2010

Snom Vision

Snom Vision

At the recent CeBit show in Snom’s home country of Hanover, Germany, a few lucky folks apparently got a sneak peek at Snom’s new Vision sidecar, a fully color attendant console which will likely be compatible with 820 and 870 color IP desk phones. [click to continue…]

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IP Paging and Intercom Made Easy

by Cory Andrews on March 3, 2010

Successfully Integrating an old, legacy analog overhead paging system with a modern IP PBX can be challenging. Although the physical setup is quite simple (typically just configure and plug in an FXS IP gateway or connect to an FXS port on the PBX), getting it to work “well” is another challenge. Anytime we convert calls from IP to analog, we open ourselves up to potential issues such as echo and latency, which can negatively affect the voice quality of overhead paging calls. [click to continue…]

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How Much Bandwidth Do I Need for VoIP?

February 26, 2010

Bandwidth is one of the most important considerations when deciding if VoIP is right for your business. Unlike traditional phone systems with use the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) to send and receive phone calls, VoIP based calling depends on your data connection, typically a broadband circuit (Cable modem, DSL, Fiber (FiOS), T1, Metro [...]

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Analog and Digital on a Single Board with the Sangoma B601

February 21, 2010

Someone at the always innovative, Marham, Ontario based voice card manufacturer Sangoma came up with a great idea. Why don’t we manufacture an Asterisk-compatible voice interface board with both Digital AND Analog interfaces onboard, in a single card? Voila!….the Sangoma B601 tops the competition in terms of versatility.

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Digium Rolls Out AsteriskExchange

February 17, 2010

Back in January at the AsteriskWorld Conference, Digium officially announced their new AsteriskExchange initiative, expanding in ambitious fashion on their existing Partner ecosystem co-marketing program. So what exactly is AsteriskExchange and why should you care about it?

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3CX The Heir Apparent of Windows Based VoIP Phone Systems

February 13, 2010

Depending on who you listen to, Microsoft’s Response Point VoIP Phone System for small businesses is either:
A – Running out the clock
B – On life support
C – Dead and Buried
Regardless of personal opinions on future development of Microsoft’s Response Point product, everyone seems to agree that Microsoft was vastly “underwhelmed” by demand for the product, [...]

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Choosing an Entry Level IP Phone

February 5, 2010

Picking an affordable, basic VoIP phone for your business, home office or residence can be confusing. An entry level, SIP capable phone often represents a buyer’s first VoIP-related purchasing decision, and choosing the lowest priced phone you can find based solely on budget can be a mistake. While price can be an important [...]

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How to Convert a Cisco IP Phone to SIP

January 31, 2010

Cisco IP phones are capable of running SCCP (Skinny Call Control Protocol, also sometimes referred to as “skinny”) to function with Cisco CallManager, or Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in order to function with popular SIP based platforms such as Asterisk or Trixbox.   By default, Cisco IP Phones ship with SCCP firmware loaded, [...]

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Aastra MX-ONE Compact SMB IP PBX Announced

January 25, 2010
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Voiplink, Inc is very excited to announce the launch of the Aastra MX-ONE™ Compact. The MX-ONE Compact is a full-featured IP PBX solution with a complete suite of applications. Targeted for small and medium businesses with 50 to 300 users, it scales to 1,000 users without additional hardware. Based on the [...]

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Aastra VoIP Phone Firmware Update Release 2.5.3

January 25, 2010

Aastra has just announced  a matenance software release for the 67xi series (except 6739i) and the 9143i, 9480i, 9480i Phones.
The 2.5.3 firmware offers improved functionality and some fixes which include:

Ability to specify the method to match certain fields on a SIP contact header
Full support for G.729 Annex A and Annex B Codec
Fixes to RTCP-XR and [...]

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