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...

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...

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...

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...

Elastix ELX-3000 Appliance

CI Gear is pleased to announce that the Elastix ELX-3000 Appliance is now available. The ELX-3000 is a scalable Elastix appliance that will now join its smaller sibling, the ELX-025 to provide broader market appeal. The ELX-3000 line has been produced by taking into consideration the different needs of a wide range of companies. It can cover needs that range from a few...