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 [...]

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Missing DAHDI trunks in FOP

Published on 24 March 2010 by Colman Carpenter in Blog

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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 Google [...]

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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 size, [...]

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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 say [...]

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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 Skype [...]

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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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RIP Response Point

Published on 13 July 2009 by Colman Carpenter in Blog, News, Telephony, VoIP

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The speculation looks like it was right on the mark, according to TMCnet. So while we’re awaiting the official last rights, it really looks like it’s RIP RP.
In many ways this can be seen as the right thin for Microsoft to do. They had a pretty significant overlap in functionality with OCS that meant in [...]

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Interesting news over at bMighty.com
Back when Microsoft announced that it was entering the SME VoIP market with the Response Point product, I will admit to a shiver of apprehension. The mighty Microsoft machine has more than once entered a market, grabbed significant market share, and through tight integration with Windows and/or Office, made its product [...]

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