Breathe new life into your old Phone System with Skype!

In tough economic times, many businesses are looking to cut or delay big ticket purchases like a new phone system. Enabling an older phone system to integrate with Skype can breathe new life into old technology by delivering new features and cost savings without an expensive forklift replacement. Skype gateways can do just that by seamlessly connecting your existing phone system to Skype – the world’s...

New Hotel Module for 3CX Phone System

3CX Phone System recently announced their new Hotel Module, a solution aimed at hotels and hospitality environments. The hotel module was designed to perform the following functions: Check in and Check out of guests Setting of guest extensions to Do not Disturb Blocking of external calls Schedule wake up calls Allow housekeeping to set room status Track guest calls and list them upon check out for easy billing The...

Review of Atcom AG-188N IAX+SIP ATA (VoIP adapter) – Part 6 – Final Thoughts and Summary Review

Note: This review was originally posted on the Michigan Telephone, VoIP and Broadband blog In yesterday’s installment of this series we discussed the internal router and other networing capabilities of the Atcom AG-188N (sold in North America by CIGear). The one thing that had me a bit puzzled was the implementation of VPN Tunneling. I’ve since been informed that the UDP method of VPN tunneling was...

Review of Atcom AG-188N IAX+SIP ATA (VoIP adapter) – Part 5 – Networking and Internal Router

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Review of Atcom AG-188N IAX+SIP ATA (VoIP adapter) – Part 4 – Setting up SIP, and securing the adapter

Note: This review was originally posted on the Michigan Telephone, VoIP and Broadband blog After yesterday’s installment we had pretty much configured the VoIP side of the Atcom AG-188N (sold in North America by CIGear) using the IAX protocol. Of course, even though IAX is the superior protocol for getting audio through difficult firewalls, there are still many reasons someone might need to use SIP —...