Bennie from Arc found my blog and wrote a couple of comments on this post. I started writing a response but it got a bit lengthy for a comment so I decided to throw it into a new post: Bennie, thanks for responding. That install was almost half a year…
I'm not bringing this up because it's something new...but rather because it took Cisco ages to add this to their least expensive voice solution, the CME. I have an inbound SIP trunk set up with Vitelity for my business. It comes right into the same…
I keep an eye on my logs and for as long as I can remember this post has been the most popular: http://www.thecruftofmybrain.com/2006/03/14/cisco-router-with-fxo-as-an-asterisk-gateway/ It's funny that almost 3 years later very little has changed. I'm running Trixbox CE now…
It's been a while since I looked at what was formerly known as the Cisco Attendant Console. Color me unimpressed. I found the new version's install process to be tedious mainly because it's java based. Key buttons would disappear repeatedly during the install and…
Gizmo5 is finally the one to break the Skype barrier. They have a new service now called OpenSky (har) that is essentially a proxy between Gizmo's SIP network and the Skype network. I imagine they're doing something like the non-free Skype Asterisk channels that have been…
Once again, I've moved the in house phone system. I was running into problems with the virtual version I had running for the last couple of months. It worked pretty well most of the time but the clock was continually out of sync and that caused other problems…
It's official, I'm going independent. I know, I probably could have picked better market timing. I think we'll be getting a bump in the next month or so though and this year might turn out ok. Time will tell. In the meantime, I need…
I've been hearing this rumor for a while now that Cisco is getting into the blade server business. I'm having a hard time with this being a smart move but I can see the reasoning. Om posted about the latest rumors today and I think he…