Date registered: September 18, 2009
Dec
30
I’m sure you’ve all seen them. You know. It’s that triangular spaceship on the table in the conference room. During that important meeting it mysteriously turns on. You talk to it, and voices talk back to you. You like to use it. Conversations are clear. Words are clear, and nothing is lost in translation. Okay. …
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Dec
21
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Dec
17
In recent years Session Initiation Protocol or SIP has become a widespread protocol of choice for multimedia applications. In particular SIP has become quite popular in voice applications. Most major PBX manufacturers now support IP endpoints and also support SIP trunks and extensions. The growing popularity of the open source PBX software Asterisk and its …
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Nov
20
New Features Avaya released the Partner ACS R8 processor a few months ago. Several new features were added, but some of the most useful include: Network time synchronization –This is great for users who subscribe to digital or IP trunks using analog gateways. Sometimes providers of these types of lines have clocking in different time …
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Oct
14
The answer is simple. You can add digital, analog, and VoIP. Digital Telephone Stations The most common telephone stations in use on business telephone systems are digital. Some examples of pure digital systems include Norstar phone systems, Avaya Merlin Legend and Merlin Magix, and Avaya Definity systems. Digital phone systems sample your voice using a …
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Sep
22
The most common small business phone systems in America are from these manufacturers: Avaya phone systems – Partner ACS, Avaya IP Office Nortel phone systems – Norstar CICS, Norstar MICS, Nortel BCM Others include Toshiba CTX/CIX, Panasonic, Samsung, NEC, and Mitel. This post isn’t really meant to help you choose which manufacturer’s phone system is …
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Sep
21
If you’re just getting started with a business phone system, then there are 3 basic types of incoming lines to consider: Analog (aka CO trunk, analog line, analog trunk, POTS line, copper line) Digital (aka T1, PRI, ISDN PRI, DS1) VoIP (aka VoIP trunk, SIP line) Analog Trunks The vast majority of small businesses (3-16 …
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Sep
18
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