His name escapes me right now but the http://www.ciscoblog.com/ has an entry about the coolness of the Cisco 1861 ISR. This little thing does it all. Voice, firewall, VPN, LAN switch with POE and wireless through an HWIC. It can also operate in SRST mode which is…
Well, not really. I found out the hard way that an Ephone-DN in CME that isn't configured from the start as a dual-line can't be changed to a dual-line. So, no consult transfer or putting a call on hold and calling someone else. No big deal,…
I guess I need to get back to blogging. I got an email that looks legit but could be spam from someone at CiscoPress asking if I'd like to review technical books. If it turns out to be legit I'll have to jump on that. I&…
I've had my MacBook for about 6 months now (!) and I figure it's time to talk about how that's working out. First of all, the bad. My MacBook has been hit by the two known problems with MacBooks. Discoloration of the palm rest and…
We have a somewhat unique situation in the office with our call handling. We like to ding an overhead pager to alert those in the office to an incoming operator call. Everyone needs to have the ability to then pickup that call. So, I've got to activate the…
At this rate I should make an Asterisk category! Something I keep running across and forgetting to document is the configuration of the Cisco 1760 as a SIP gateway. Specifically, I have the context set to "from-pstn". I prefer this because it separates it, if such a thing…
I'm in the process of installing Trixbox which is the new version of Asterisk@Home. It seems some things are not enabled by default, like voicemail. Also, it would seem SCCP is missing some stuff to install. I found this maillist entry that sums up the steps pretty…