Aastra releases RP to SIP conversion firmware for Aastralink RP phones

Aastra released an RP to SIP conversion firmware today. This is designed to help customers of AastraLink RP phones to re-use their existing phones with standard SIP based phone systems and soft switches. The Aastralink RP phones were originally designed to work only with Microsoft Response Point phone systems including the Aastralink Pro RP system. Since the fate of Response Point is up in the air with...

What’s the big deal about Response Point?

It has been about 15 months since we first started offering Microsoft Response Point phone systems so I thought it would be a good idea to reflect on Response Point’s strengths, weaknesses and positioning in the small business phone system market. I’ll start with a brief history of Response Point: Intro to RP Response Point was designed with the purpose of creating a small business phone system that...

Remote User Solution in Response Point

If you’ve ever tried to extend Microsoft Response Point to remote users and/or soft phones, you’ve probably realized there is no built in support for this. Well in this post, we present a relatively simple solution to this problem. First of all, this solution assumes you have an account with a VoIP provider. The first step is to create local extensions for each remote user via the Response Point...

Aastra: Response Point Maintenance Release

Aastra Telecom announces the availability of a maintenance software release for Aastra’s Response Point™ phones. Maintenance release 2.1.1.118 for Aastra’s Response Point™ phones is now available on the AastraLink RP™ website. This release offers a number operational enhancements including: Improved configuration options for the RP 6753i phone. Programming restrictions have been removed for...

How to change the ringtone on Syspine IP Phone 310

You can change the ring tone on Syspine IP Phone 310 through the web interface or the phone itself. The procedure is given below: Web Interface: Check the phone IP by pressing  #*47  (#*IP#) Open a web browser and type in the IP address Use the phone login as ‘admin’ and password as ‘0000’ Under YV5 click on Phone Settings YV5->Phone Settings. Here you can change the default ringer volume and ringer...