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Open Source vs Open Platform
Every once in a while I catch myself running through an open phone system conversation and whirling past competitors as proprietary. When the conversation suddenly turns to Open Source phone systems, I’m forced to backtrack. Your IT guru slings it … Continue reading
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Tagged business, business solutions, Business Telephony, ip pbx, open, open platform, open source
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Why Use Video
HBKZWY5H697Q Given that there are great number of video phones coming to market, that numerous meeting applications now stress the availability of video, and that video conferencing has played a large role in enterprise communications for many years, this post … Continue reading
Free Wi-Fi and VOIP
Review of four SIP based iPhone Apps for using VoIP over public Wi-Fi. The very unscientific testing was done in December, 2010 in Dublin, Ireland and January, 2011 in Paris, France at 5 different locations. Continue reading
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Tagged Best SIP App, iPhone App Review, iPhone Apps, iPhone VoIP Apps, SIP, VoIP over public Wi-Fi
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Skype Unleashes Business Plan
Skype has rolled out several products for businesses this year. With many smaller companies including NPOs already using Skype’s consumer services to reduce international and long-distance charges, it seemed inevitable the service would open up a plan for business services. The overview seems simple enough: attach Skype to a current PBX as a specific call plan for inter-office (internal) calls and add credits for low-cost international/long-distance calls to non-skype users.
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Tagged Business VOIP, skype business, voip business, voip service
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Snom VOIP Phones: a Green Review
With my endeavor to create an internal standard for green system design, I decided to do more research on quality and usability. Snom was kind enough to let me demo a Snom 300 VoIP Phone. Here is an overall assessment, read on for details. On quality, the design offers a compact and solid build, perhaps more than similar phones from other brands. My engineers have been surprised that the standard level VOIP phone (the 300 Series features the 320 and 370 as well) is such a well rounded and stable device on technical standards complimented by an intuitive web interface. Continue reading
