Cisco has an unsurpassed reputation for quality and support.  As the saying goes, “No one ever gets fired for buying Cisco”, or so one might say to justify the expense of going with the top brand.  Since the acquisition of Linksys, the mingling of product lines and most of all, listening to their customers, Cisco [...]

It’s one of the most frustrating and complex problems that you’ll ever face deploying IP PBXs such as Asterisk, FreeSWITCH and 3CX when interconnecting with analog telephone (PSTN) lines – ECHO! The usual first reaction is to add some hardware echo cancellation and hope for the best, but it usually is not the best solution. [...]

Several manufacturers had some quite spectacular false starts into the wireless VoIP world, with products that suffered from horrible battery life, firmware bugs and very fragile hardware.  Have things changed?  Which of the current crop of wireless phones and the competing technologies should I choose for my next deployment? Well, wireless IP phones have come [...]

Digium, the Asterisk Company, has recently unveiled Switchvox Developer Central, an online community for developers who are integrating voice and web applications using the Switchvox unified communications solution. Switchvox is Digium’s family of voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).  Digium has also released a video walkthrough of the Test [...]

The Sangoma Y-cable (Cable 632) easily adapts Sangoma’s latest A400 series high-density, analog PCI card to patch panels and terminal blocks with Amphenol harnesses. You may prefer this method of connection in order to terminate one or more A400s into a 24 port patch panel via an M/F Amphenol cable. The A400 comes with a [...]

Polycom SoundPoint(R) IP and SoundStation(R) IP Software Release SIP 2.1.1 RevC Version 2.1.1RevC 4 May 2007 The new Polycom software can be downloaded by our customers from our ftp site below. Be sure to check out the complete list of changes in the release notes PDF. ftp://ftp.telephonyware.com/firmware/polycom/ This release adds support for the SoundPoint IP320 [...]

Polycom Phones Daylight Savings Adjustment The following information was taken from: Polycom SIP Admin Guide 2.0 Section 2.1.7 – Daylight Saving Time Changes For daylight saving time, dates will be changing in North America in 2007. To compensate for this adjustment, refer to the Polycom “Technical Bulletin 17803: Daylight Savings Time Changes for 2007 on [...]