A couple of years ago I went through a couple of iterations of CME to Asterisk integration. Since then we've been running fairly reliably with the Cisco 1760 router behaving purely as a SIP based gateway and Asterisk managing everything else. I've run our Cisco phones…
Via CiscoBlog.com I've discovered PuttyCM. This act's as a wrapper for putty and gives you session management and tabs. It can do a bunch of other cool tricks like tiled windows and encryption of the configuration database. It's not quite as advanced as…
...but not entirely. Turns out the 180 day waiting period for tests is only if you pass. That makes more sense as the only good reason you'd have for going back right away is to braindump. Ok, so maybe I jumped the gun a bit. Still,…
I certainly hope this isn't the case. If it turns out to be wrong I'll post an apology. However, in a recent post on CiscoBlog there's a troubling comment. The post itself shows how silly Cisco can be about certain things.…
I might have discovered the limitation with Freecall. There's a reference to the calls being limited to 1 minute until you buy credits from them. Well what's the point of 300 minutes per week then? Are you really going to make 300 1 minute calls??? I&…
I think I'm finally going to work on this test. I've discovered that I can re-cert my CCNP by passing this and I'll only have one test left for the CCVP then. I have the book and the PEC material is free and looks…
I've been running on Asterisk, actually Trixbox, for probably over a year now. It works ok but I have several issues that I've never been very happy with. For one thing I've been using an old version of the SCCP channel to run the…
I just came across Andy's comments about the state of room based video conferencing. I have to say that I agree completely. I've been to a number of Cisco Telepresence demo's now and there's no question it's impressive. The price…