Garrett Smith, SIP Trunking & Packet8
Garrett Smith is right on the money in his appraisal of Packet8's new SIP trunking service. I wonder if anyone sees the paradox in this? A year ago when I was shopping around for a hosted IP-PBX I looked at…
Asterisk Where You Least Expect It
I'm on-the-road again the next few weeks. This week I have meetings in Burlington VT. That's just about as far from Houston as you can get up the East coast. The pity is that the northeast has been having Houston…
Matt Watson’s Blog Is Interesting
This afternoon I happened upon a blog I'd not seen before from Matt Watson. A fellow Canadian Matt's blog has several interesting items including a story, in several parts, of migrating his employer to an Asterisk based PBX. He also…
SlimServer on FreeNAS Soon To Be Revisited
I see that the newer Squeeze Center, which is actually Slim Server v7, is available as a FreeNAS module. This means that it might be a good time to upgrade my T5700 based music server.
I haven’t actually been using this server for a few months. A while back I decided to try a “room correction” plugin from Inguz for Slim Server. This does some DSP transformations on the music stream on-the-fly, basically effecting some equalization. This plugin required more CPU power than a lowly T5700 could provide, so I’ve been using and old P4-2.8 as my music server these past months.
Power Corrupts, For Now
It’s been four days since I got the Siemens S685IP phone system installed and working. All appeared fine at first. I thought myself clever for a DIY conversion to US power supplies. And, well, one of the three handsets is functioning perfectly. The other two drained their batteries and will not charge them.
At first I thought it may just be a matter of some flaky rechargeable batteries. So I went to my local Radio Shack, which is more convenient than Fry’s, and bought some AAA size NiMH rechargeables to replace those provided by the manufacturer. No joy. A day later they’re discharged and the phones won’t charge them for some reason.
GSM Gateway Article Part 2 Online This Morning
Small Net Builder has put up part two of my article about implementing a GSM gateway. My implementation tried both a hosted PBX and a local Asterisk server. I was able to achieve all but one of my goals so…