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...

Problem with Realtek LAN Card and the Solution (Elastix/Atom)

I had the same problem with a ELX-3000. The appliance use a ATOM and a RealTek Lan IC. I simply did what was posted another site….. **************** Atom and r8101E driver To get the Atom box to work this is what I did. Grab a USB key drive. Go into the BIOS and disable the card and reboot. Once running download the driver from and copy to USB key...

Software phone systems can save you money!

For decades, a handful of giant manufacturers have maintained a virtual monopoly in the SMB phone systems market. This has resulted in expensive, proprietary technology that was difficult to manage and costly to maintain. By some estimates, only a third of small businesses have implemented phone systems for these reasons. This leaves the majority of this segment...

Elastix Workshop and Presentation in Toronto

Jose Landivar, one of the founders of Elastix will be hosting a workshop and presentation on Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 in Toronto. Elastix is an asterisk-based linux appliance that integrates the best tools available into a single, easy-to-use interface. It also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third party modules. From 5pm to 7pm, Jose will be...

High-Availability/Failover Asterisk clusters

If you use PRIs and are looking to create a reliable, fault tolerant, highly available system with Asterisk, the foneBRIDGE by Redfone is a solution worth looking into. The foneBRIDGE provides quick, reliable and robust T1/E1 fail-over allowing IT Managers and System Integrators to implement Asterisk in the most demanding of environments where downtime simply can not be...