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Greetings list, Does anyone have experience with SIP conference phones? I need to source a couple for a client, but I'm not really familiar with the market - i.e. what's available, what's decent quality, etc.. A cursory googling has led me to the Polycom Soundpoint IP4000 at around the ?450 mark - any thoughts on this? If anyone knows a good Polycom wholesaler in the UK, I'd be

Greetings list, Does anyone have any experiences they'd like to share deploying these phones in medium-size asterisk setups, e.g. 40+ users? I have a project coming up to deploy 100 phones over 2 offices and the client rather likes these phones. Are there any obvious pitfalls/configuration difficulties/quality issues etc. using these phones? If so, what alternatives would people suggest with

Greetings list, I've noticed over the last couple of weeks that, unsurprisingly, nearly every new PC seems to be coming with Vista these days. I expect it'll only be a matter of time for all of us before clients start needing Vista-compatible softphones (if it's not already happened). So, what's the story with Vista compatibility amongst the softphones currently out there?

Greetings list, I remember a discussion many months ago which ISTR concluded that asterisk didn't play nicely at all in multi-homed setups (e.g. SIP packets not being sent out through the same interface they were received on, etc.). Is this still the case, or are there versions which have resolved the issue? Even if it's still the case, is this only a problem for SIP, or does it affect

Greetings list, I need to set up a point to point SIP connection between two devices without either of them registering with a registrar/proxy/etc. at all. The devices I've tested so far all seem to insist on having a registration before they'll make or take calls. One of the devices needs to be an ATA with an FXO port (e.g. Sipura/Linksys SPA-3000/3102), the other device can be either

After working with the Grandstream GXP 2000 series phones, I have decided that I am quite unhappy with their problems, both voice quality, volume, features and others. For their price now, there are plenty of phones to choose from as well. So subjectively what would be the best Hardphone for a small/medium business with multiple line support, BLF, etc. Are the Cisco 7960 the best of the

Hi, Is it possible to dial voicemail from a particular phone line and automatically enter the extension that is being dialed from, thereby only prompting for the password? I've been searching around to find if this is possible, but I haven't been able to find an example of this. I have a feeling it's more of a endpoint function, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has accomplished

Hi guys, Is it possible to allow remote peers to connect to your local DUNDi Asterisk box, even if you don't have them listed in the dundi.conf? Alex

Hello all, One of the buildings I have an asterisk box deployed in is used by two small companies on two floors. They have an agreement between them whereby they'll answer each other's incoming calls and take messages if the office is empty / everyone is on the phone. Each of them has an ISDN BRI delivered to asterisk via zaphfc, then dropped into a context as follows: exten =>

Hi, I'm using zaptel-1.2.22.1 with asterisk-1.2.10 and following steps to make zaptel working... OS is gentoo linux 2006.1 Hardware: --------- 0000:05:01.0 Communication controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface Subsystem: Unknown device 8085:0003 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 I/O ports at b400 Memory at ff900000

Greetings all, Not specifically an asterisk query, but a couple of transfer queries that I'm sure are obvious to folks who use these phones all the time: 1) how does one do a blind transfer? When a call is answered and one hits the transfer button, followed by an extension, one has to wait for the other party to answer, then hit transfer again, before the call is released. I'm sure there

Greetings list, What are people's experiences with WiFi SIP phones? When I last looked into them about 18 months ago, they were incredibly expensive, had very limited range and poor battery life. In the end, it worked out much more cost effective to simply use ATAs + DECT cordless phones where there was a requirement for portable devices. I assume things must have moved on somewhat since

Greetings list, I posted this to the -biz list a few days ago. In hindsight, I think it would have been more appropriate posted here, so apologies to those on both lists who've now seen this twice. I have had a request to provide 2x PRIs to a site in Lausanne, Switzerland, but my knowledge of the Swiss Telco market is non-existent. Are there any folks on the list who've experience in

Greetings list, Not exclusively asterisk-related, but I've noticed the CentPBX site has been offline the last few days. Anyone know the reasoning behind that, and more importantly, is anyone mirroring it? Thanks in advance. Regards, Chris -- C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited For full contact details visit http://www.minotaur.it This email is made from 100% recycled electrons

Greetings list, It seems that more and more phones these days are coming with XML mini-browsers. I'd like to have a go at developing something useful to use on them, but in all honesty, most of our customers use their phones to make and take calls and very little else. So I'm open to suggestions. What useful applications are you developing for these mini-browsers? What sort of things do

Hi All, Until now I've only used IAX2 to connect to ITSPs. I've been toying with a SIP connection to Gizmo Project, but not yet successfully. It brings to mind a question. At what point does it make sense to consider a SIP-aware firewall such as those from Ingate? I'd hate to move away from my m0n0wall, which is open source, easy to manage and has served me brilliantly for two

Hello, I need to determine what numbers in a call list are cell phone numbers and remove them from the list. I'm sure this is nothing new to most of you. Thanks for the help if you have time to give me some direction. Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I'm looking for recommendations (good/bad!) on what people use for a reception console type of phone. So-far I've used Grandstreams and Snoms, both have good and bad points.. Not after anything too fancy - programmable "extension" buttons would be nice, good display essential... (Brief background, I have a proposition for a 120-extension setup, but it's a managed office

HI, We need to get our number into the White Pages. Has anyone here actually tried it? Thanks, -- Leonard Burton, N9URK http://www.jiffyslides.com service at jiffyslides.com leonardburton at gmail.com "The prolonged evacuation would have dramatically affected the survivability of the occupants."

Hello List, After seeing a few positive responses for the Linksys SPA-942 phones I was hoping to get some answers on the following questions: * How do the phones handling system wide paging? Is it similar to the Polycom phones? * Can a corporate directory be configured with the phones using Asterisk? * How is the speaker phone quality? Thanks Roy Anciso Director of Technology Manistee