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…but that’s doesn’t mean your business needs to suffer! With a VoIP-enabled telephone system, not only can you save costs on outbound calls, but it’s possible to set it up so that your staff can connect to it wherever they have access to the internet. Flexible Working This has been a goal for many businesses [...]

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VoIP over slow broadband

Published on 19 November 2010 by Colman Carpenter in Blog, VoIP

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A recent survey by top10.com has named the Kent village of Farningham as the place in the country with the lowest average broadband speed, a mere 1.3Mb/s. Slow broadband, as anyone who chooses not to live in a large town or city, is a fact of life in Britain. What makes Farningham’s situation so ironic [...]

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Smoke and Mirrors

Published on 28 June 2010 by Colman Carpenter in Blog, VoIP

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or….How VoIP can help you project a ‘corporate’ image The Challenge Starting a business can be a very expensive exercise, with a wide range of up-front costs incurred. These can include stock, premises, staff and a million and one other things. In the past, a trip to your friendly bank manager with a business plan [...]

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Missing DAHDI trunks in FOP

Published on 24 March 2010 by Colman Carpenter in Blog

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Image via Wikipedia If, like our Foncordiax product, your Asterisk-based PBX utilises the excellent Flash Operator Panel to give a visual representation of what’s happening on your phone system (including trunk utilisation, extensions, parking lots and more), then you may have noticed that DAHDI trunks don’t appear. It had me stumped for a bit, but [...]

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It can be very obvious when you, as a business, might consider a new phone system – moving office, for instance. However companies don’t move office very often, so does that mean you should stick with what you have? Not necessarily, no. I’d like to suggest some other times at which you should at least [...]

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SME VoIP traffic considerations We have had a couple of installs recently that are very typical scenarios in the SME market sector. Interestingly enough, though, the businesses are very different to each other, one being an office-based company in the internet sector, the other a retail outlet serving the building trade. They are similar in [...]

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This is the first of a series of tips taken from the recent Packt publication Asterisk 1.4 – The Professional’s Guide, of which I am a co-author. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Asterisk is a very capable telephone system, that’s a pretty uncontroversial point of view. It’s also pretty safe to [...]

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Skype and SIP

Published on 09 September 2009 by Colman Carpenter in Asterisk, Blog, News, Open Source, Telephony

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So Skype have embraced the SIP world, including integration into Asterisk. It had to happen as there was no other way Skype was going to make significant inroads into the business market (see my previous blog on Ebay selling Skype). So now it’s possible, from within your VoIP-enabled PBX, to make a receive calls to [...]

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If you’ve been keeping an eye on the VoIP market, or Google, or Apple/iPhone, then you have almost certainly seen the kerfuffle over the release of a Google Voice iPhone app and it’s subsequent removal from the iPhone AppStore. If not then the web is full of this week’s hot story, and a quick seach [...]

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There’s a buzz in the air!

Published on 21 July 2009 by Colman Carpenter in Blog, Mobile, News, VoIP

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There a lot of chat in the VoIP world at the moment about Nimbuzz, which is the latest in a lengthening line of mobile/cell VoIP-enablement software packages. Nimbuzz seems to be well thought-out, with an impressive range of gateways, including Skype. Will it succeed? Possibly, although it’s early in the hype curve at the moment [...]

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