Archive for the ‘VoIP’ Category

Multi-account VoIP providers

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

In some cases one would like to be able to connect multiple SIP/IAX accounts to the same upstream server. Each account may have differing creditials etc and this can (with asterisk at least) create some authentication issues. Fortunately there exists some “solutions”.

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Hooking cell phones up to your (IP) PBX

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

I recently got overly annoyed with both the office phone and my cell phone going off on me at the same time. Then I bumped into chan_mobile. Now I have some nasty ideas. Why not use bluetooth to automatically hook your cellphone up to the PBX whenever you walk into the office? Sounds hard? Well, as a matter of fact, it’s not.

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BLF, asterisk reloads and SIP Registry …

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Something which a number of clients has been complaining about is that the BLF lights on the GXP phones just stop functioning.  The stock standard answer until now has been “reboot the phone” … however, the calls keeps coming.  So what can be done to fix this more permanently?

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A PC Can only do one thing at a time …

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Whilst the above is probably true, it no longer holds, most processors nowadays are at least dual-core, in other words, we can now do TWO things at a time!

Now, the above is the newest argument I’ve seen against VoIP systems such as asterisk! Can you imagine it?

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