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Archive for June, 2007

Why IP Sizzles?

Resellers that focus only on the telephony side miss the biggest opportunity in the current technology shift.
We renamed VoIP Sizzles to IP Sizzles to highlight the changes and opportunities we see for the reseller channel. ABP sells and markets through partners and a part of our mission has become to train, educate and share experience. [...]

When your company’s Internet access is down for 2 days…

At ABP Tech  we eat our own food. Many of our sevices run over the internet including the most critical systems for our operation such us our ERP system our  phone and e-mail.
Murphy is always around and this week the worst happened: our main Internet connection was down for almost two days, our ISP had [...]

Building a user friendly Asterisk based Hosted PBX - Review of Installing Thirdlane’s Multi-Tenant PBX Manager

This article describes my experience in  installing and configuring an Asterisk based  Hosted PBX solution using Thirdlane PBX Manager MTE (multi-tenant edition) 5.0. My goal was to learn how fast this product could be installed and get a overview of  PBX Manager features in general as well as explore the multi-tenant unique functionality. I’ll comment [...]

Eutectics - The USB Phone standard for most Softphones & PC clients

E  a strange name tough to pronounce   (u tek ticks) and even worse to spell†¦ But, despite these peculiarities, this adolescent VoIP hardware manufacturer produces a variety of products designed to make your PC VoIP experience more enjoyable, useful and even (dare we say it) practical. Eutectics is [...]

The telecomm revolution will not be televised

The telecomm revolution will not be televised by ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn — “It’s smaller outfits which are coming up with the innovations, like systems to let people win eBay auctions by phone, pay parking tickets, or make international cellphone calls free.
Interesting post by Dana Blankenhorn in ZD Net. This is what people really do today [...]

Digium PCI Express Cards for use with Asterisk based Telephone Systems

We were thrilled when we heard Digium was releasing a full line of PCI Express (PCIe) cards for digital T1 and E1s interfaces.  We were even happier after we saw the specs and the new features. PCIe is a serial bus that offers no compatibility with older buses and it is fast becoming the dominant [...]

Pirelli GSM/WiFi VoIP Phone! Friction No Longer Applies When You are Wireless

As an insider at ABP I frequently get first shot at trying out new products. So I was excited when I was the one to get a real world test of our new Pirelli DP-L10 Dual Mode phone. This DP-L10 allows connectivity to a GSM (Cingular or T-Mobile Network) and a built-in SIP client for [...]

Challenges for Traditional Telephony VARs … From Telecom to WAN Specialist?

As we all know, VoIP  gets more popular by the day and  VoIP solutions don’t have to be heavily pitched  anymore to convince buyers  that IP is the way to go,  many  IT  decision makers  already heard the buzz and know about the beauties of the technology and  committed to replacing legacy with IP enabled [...]

Notes on the Aastra 57i IP phone

Just by looking at the phone all I can commnet is that the Aastra 57i is a nice executive looking Ip phone featuring a large display and popular black and silver colors. However, it takes much more than just looking to really get to know and appreciate a product, below you can find my comments [...]

Hands-On the Snom Wireless Headset Adapter

I was fortunate to grab a Snom Wireless headset adapter out of the test stock. I am using the GN Netcom 9120 with the Flexboom and I have been very impressed. Before I get into how this device works, I would like to talk about life without the Headset adapter.
When you use the GN Netcom [...]