http://www.voipwonders.com - Anything and Everything about VoIP Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:44:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many options available if you are in the market for a VOiP based phone system, everyone wants to sell you a new system and do a rip and replace as far as your trusted traditional phone system goes. When you want to IP enable your current phone system, there ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/06/19/voip-as-you-are.html There are many ways to enable unified communications across your organization, there are hardware based solutions from companies like Cisco to software based solutions from the likes of Microsoft. Office Communications Server 2007 or OCS 2007 is a venerable platform for providing communications connectivity, be it voice or video, keep in ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/06/12/office-communications-server-2007.html If you've read this thread http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/24/configuring-3cx-phone-system-with-cbeyond-sipconnect.html/trackback you'll see my comment about needing to disable RFC2833 and SIPInfo for DTMF. This is very easy in 3CX client, you simply uncheck the option under DTMF under connections. for Xlite client, it is hidden away in the advance menu. First you need to access the ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/05/21/how-to-disable-rfc2833-in-xlite-softphone.html There have been many arguments about Microsoft Windows as a stable enough OS for enterprise VoIP deployments. The fact of the matter is most high-end enterprise class phone systems use Microsoft Windows systems in one way or another; from Cisco to Mitel. Then we have SMB class of VoIP phone system ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/05/18/using-microsoft-windows-as-base-os-for-voip-systems.html I talk mostly about technology and technical specifications as they pertain to VoIP, today I started to think about the business end of things. Let me explain; Technology is something that we focus on here at Voipwonders.com but most small to medium businesses don't really care about technology. These companies may ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/05/04/enterprise-class-voip-implementation.html You probably haven't tried to configure 3CX with Cbeyond's SIPConnect service, as it's not publicly supported yet. I'm testing a 3CX connection to Cbeyond's SIPConnect  as a trial and here are my findings so far; First of all, it was the simplest easiest SIP Conversion I've ever done. We were done ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/24/configuring-3cx-phone-system-with-cbeyond-sipconnect.html What most of us understand as unified communications (UC) is really not true unified communications. Some organizations are now moving on to UC with a twist by unifying landline and cellular networks. The capability required to do this is the ability for users to seamlessly switch from landline at the office and move out ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/22/true-unified-communications.html With the huge number of VoIP providers out there and the flux of them coming and going, it can be hard to make the correct choice. You want to sign up with a company that is easy to work with and where every once in a while you can get hold ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/19/voip-service-providers-comparison.html There has been severe backlash against ISPs blocking certain types of traffic, specifically peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic. The backlash has even caused some ISPs to reverse their decision about blocking or throttling such traffic. In the enterprise, however, where the data network may also be carrying voice and video traffic, sooner or ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/10/get-your-bandwidth-back-from-peer-to-peer-p2p-applications.html I think it needs mentioning, on the Cisco UC500 series appliance, you cannot seperate the wireless access point, network switch or firewall from the rest of the appliance. These are not seperate pieces of hardware that connect together but instead is one hardware device with different software licenses allowing you ... http://www.voipwonders.com/2008/04/04/cisco-uc500-components.html