VOIP - fuck you it's 2016 just call me on my cellphone

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adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Important question: is this dude just working from home or is he a road warrior?

# ¿ Apr 11, 2016 05:47

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:02

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

An edge router from ubnt is $50 for the low end.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2016 13:42

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Thanks Ants posted:

I'm surprised at how much duplication of effort Cisco and Meraki are doing, presumably there is a desire to keep the two brands separate but it seems really wasteful. Cisco have Spark, handsets etc.

You could say the same about Buick and Chevy. Ultimately, while they may do their own thing, I'm sure there is a lot of synergy.

# ¿ May 18, 2016 03:42

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Ur Getting Fatter posted:

I installed AsteriskNOW on a VM to play with and goddamn, I'm sorry for everyone that has to cj this professionally, you are not paid nearly enough.

The learning curve is very steep, but once you get the hang of the product it's not as terrible as it seems at first.

# ¿ May 26, 2016 04:43

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

OmniCorp posted:

Any recommendations on a 60+, could grow to 100 seat office phone system? We might be upgrading from the Allworx system we have in place now. We have a SIP trunk and a PRI for faxes, but PRI could go away.

How many locations?

# ¿ May 27, 2016 04:05

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

if cost is not an issue, would you be willing to hire me as a consultant for the project?

# ¿ May 27, 2016 15:55

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

We acquired some branches that had shoretel phones and they worked just fine as configured, but getting support was a pain in the rear end. We replaced it with Cisco and saved a bunch of money on support.

That should be all you need to know.

# ¿ May 31, 2016 04:43

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

KillHour posted:

If replacing anything with Cisco saved you money, I'm prepared to write that product off entirely.

The previous institution was behind 2 years on support, and we had to get current by paying the back years plus a year of future. Replacing their 60 or so phones with cisco (which included 3 ISRs) was less expensive.

# ¿ May 31, 2016 13:56

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Jonny 290 posted:

Asterisk is great if you're not relying on it for a paycheck. i run a small raspi board at home for some phones so i can sit on conference calls without burning my ear up, and I also do a lot of experimentation using the app_rpt plugin for Asterisk, which interfaces it to various two-way and ham radios. I can fire off touch tones over the air and it'll pipe back with a speech synth'd weather report or a slow-scan TV image of a webcam. And of course you can link it with other radio nodes via IAX.

I run a 200 node fax to email gateway on asterisk (well elastix, but same diff). Very successful and it saved at least 5 digits of currency.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 04:07

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Moey posted:

Care to elaborate on this some more?

I can elaborate some. Elastix (an asterix linux distro) has all the functionality built in. I have a sip trunk to the elastix box from my cisco call manager, and I create IAX extensions for any user that wants a DID fax number. I then tie that to a fax modem in elastix, and define an email address for the user. Call comes in to DID, routes to elastix, routes to IAX extension, routes to fax modem, turns into email with TIFF attached. it took about 15 minutes to go from reading about elastix to proof of concept, and that was 4 or 5 years ago. It's gotta be even easier today.

edit: calls that come in from our internet based sip trunk sometimes fail, but the vast majority (at least 99.5%) complete on the first retry). Our T1 calls are virtually 100% successful.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 04:15

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Moey posted:

This sounds pretty cool. I am getting sick managing our poo poo fax environment. It is a mix of pots lines, lines spit out via VG224 and then a bunch of ATA187/SPA112 hidden under desks and whatnot.

Edit: Are you sending faxes through Elastix as well?

You can but I don't. They just use the fax at the branch which shares a line with the Alarm.

# ¿ Jun 22, 2016 18:59

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

I just recycled a bunch of yealink phones. One of our tenants bailed and left behind about 10. Guess I should have kept them.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 02:29

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:02

adorai: Nov 2, 2002; 10/27/04 Never forget; Grimey Drawer

Kazinsal posted:

gently caress Cisco DX-series personal telepresence endpoints.

That is all.

Why? I just ordered 4 DX-80s. Don't make me nervous.

# ¿ May 26, 2017 00:34

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