A blog on VoIP Phones, VoIP Phone Systems & VoIP Phone Equipment.
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...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...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...Sangoma NetBorder Express VoIP Gateway
Last month, Sangoma launched the the NetBorder Express VoIP Gateway product line. NetBorder Express is a SIP to TDM Gateway on a card. It is a full-fledged VoIP Gateway to connect Legacy Networks to SIP and VoIP Networks. NetBorder Express is a “ready to go” solution—much like an external gateway, but it also provides the flexibility of building your own gateway. It...Comparison between Astribank and PCI Cards
Asterisk Channel Banks are often overlooked when considering a solution for adding telephony interfaces to an open source telephony deployment. Astribank is a good example of a Channel Bank designed specifically for Asterisk. The Astribank offers an interesting alternative to PCI cards. Below is a comparison put together by Xorcom, the company behind the...
