[asterisk-biz] WAS: OT: Gore Still Ahead NOW: OT: Gore sux, Bush sux, Asterisk rules, can we move on?

2006-10-08 Thread Colin Anderson
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RE: OT: Gore Still Ahead (was: Re: [asterisk-biz] New Wholesale C ompany)

2006-09-28 Thread Colin Anderson
The Internet is the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship can be reached by an IP packet from. WTF?? Reads like Chinese stereo instructions written by a stoned philosophy major! But let's not fight that battle over the definition of is, 'k?

RE: [asterisk-biz] Free Calls to China

2006-06-19 Thread Colin Anderson
I'm just curious why someone would give away calling to China... it seems a little odd.. there's no advertising... no nothing... Tinfoil Hat Time. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or

RE: [asterisk-biz] attempt on hacking us ?

2006-06-09 Thread Colin Anderson
if you want to send the feds a really crazy log, port-forward TCP 22 outside your firewall, wait 24 hours, you'll probably have a few thousand attempts. -Original Message- From: Rusty Dekema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 10:01 AM To: Commercial and

RE: [asterisk-biz] RMA - Who should pay for the shipping?

2006-06-01 Thread Colin Anderson
You should eat the cost, over time you will learn to order extra phones on the markup so that you can support the client. This is biz 101. DING DING! exactly right on. When you do your margin calculation it should be: (my cost * my markup) + value of product according to failure rate in

RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium T400P Clone For Sale

2006-05-24 Thread Colin Anderson
Fourth! -Original Message- From: Jim Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:29 PM To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium T400P Clone For Sale Third! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [asterisk-biz] Digium T400P Clone For Sale

2006-05-24 Thread Colin Anderson
Fifth? er wait ... I probably don't count! dang nabbit! Maybe you can suggest to your compadres to take the best of the IAXy and then make it work good like an SPA-3000. I would buy at least 50. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com

RE: [asterisk-biz] SNOM - delivery problems?

2006-05-16 Thread Colin Anderson
In North America, I had the exact opposite problem - it's hard to buy 1 or 2 360's but I did a bulk order of 120 phones and there was no problem whatsoever. My feeling is that distributors hate breaking up a box for singles - they are 10 to a box. Since the 360 is internationalized and ships

[asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP providers EN UM Infrastructure working group teleconference

2006-05-01 Thread Colin Anderson
If direct on-net calling to hundreds of thousands of VoIP customers is something you think your business could benefit from then don't forget to join the CAVP ENUM working group which kicks off its first meeting tomorrow! This short 1 hour conference call will start things off. The facts are

RE: [asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP provider s EN UM Infrastructure working group teleconference

2006-05-01 Thread Colin Anderson
Thanks for raising some good points. I think I can clarify CAVP's position here: a) while many carriers run IP in their network, I doubt any of them will want to *accept* calls from another carrier over public intarweb, much less *send* the calls to another carrier. I certainly won't. Unless

RE: [asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP provider s EN UM Infrastructure working group teleconference

2006-05-01 Thread Colin Anderson
I forgot my disclaimer on my last post: Although I am not a direct member of the CAVP as I do not have CLEC status, I do have some understanding of the issues that CAVP is attempting to deal with, and I have had a hand in setting up the CAVP. So I have to say that my last post does not represent

RE: [asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP provider s EN UM Infrastructure working group teleconference

2006-05-01 Thread Colin Anderson
/default.aspx?indx=33lang=e It's only 17 of them, and all of them is quite big. All the Best! Sergey. Colin Anderson wrote: I forgot my disclaimer on my last post: Although I am not a direct member of the CAVP as I do not have CLEC status, I do have some understanding of the issues that CAVP

RE: [asterisk-biz] Canadian Association of Voice over IP provider s EN UM Infrastructure working group teleconference

2006-05-01 Thread Colin Anderson
working group teleconference Telus is CLEC on Bell's area, and visa versa. All the Best! Sergey. Colin Anderson wrote: LOL, if Telus and Bell are classed as CLEC's who, then, is the ILEC?? -Original Message- From: Sergey Kuznetsov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3

[asterisk-biz] Looking for IAX termination and DID rates for Iran , low volume

2006-03-14 Thread Colin Anderson
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RE: [asterisk-biz] Does VoIP Really Work for Serious Business?

2006-03-08 Thread Colin Anderson
There is really no reason in most cases to pass the media through an asterisk box, unless you need to transcode it. Hi Sorry for the newb question but what exactly do you mean by this? The media stream (or media path) refers to the audio passed between phones, Asterisk, and a service. This

[asterisk-biz] OT: WTB: Unlocked Linksys ATA FOB Canada

2006-02-14 Thread Colin Anderson
Buddy of mine wants to buy an unlocked Linksys ATA in Canada to avoid customs and duty hassles. If you have one, please reply direct to him: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thx ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list

RE: [asterisk-biz] Eid Mubarak

2006-01-10 Thread Colin Anderson
Did Eid (or his God) use Asterisk? If he doesn't, he should. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz

RE: [Asterisk-biz] SuperMicro Servers

2005-12-15 Thread Colin Anderson
Just did a terabyte Raid 5 array last week with a 3ware card under CentOS. Plugged drives in, defined the array in the BIOS, reboot, stuck in the CD. Worked first try. 15 min total. I've been doing arrays for 10 years, and that was *by far* the easiest one I've ever done (and the largest!). I

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Price on new, retail channel bank

2005-11-15 Thread Colin Anderson
I would prefer channel banks that have gotten outstanding recommendations on the various lists. Adtran is expensive but worth it. Support is great, no gotchas integrating the thing, and you can configure it 8 ways from Sunday. If you want it to *just work* then get an Adtran.

RE: [Asterisk-biz] D-Link DVX-1000

2005-11-09 Thread Colin Anderson
These type of boxes (DLink) you just put in your office, turn them on, point a web browser ... True, but I'm *so* impressed with [EMAIL PROTECTED] used it for my home PBX and had it running in under a half hour. Stick in disk, go for coffee, reboot, point a web browser... Xorcom Rapid is no

RE: [Asterisk-biz] D-Link DVX-1000

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Anderson
$1500 US! No ATA! For 15 hund, it's quite doable to make a real Asterisk PBX to scale to 100 users with a single port t1 4 FXS (your cost there, though and of course you would have to configure it yourself, but with AMP and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] that's not too much pain.). Same Asterisk box for

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Digium Announces Highest Analog Density Card i n Open Source Telephony Market - 24-ports/card

2005-10-24 Thread Colin Anderson
Anybody seen this thing? Curious about the amphenol connector - is there a hydra style connector for it or would you have to make one? -Original Message- From: Tom Hayden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 8:35 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Looking for a configuration software

2005-09-28 Thread Colin Anderson
Demo looks very good. I like how you de-aggregate all of the various functions i.e. you can add *just* a voicemail or *just* a phone, with AMP it's kind of all or nothing. The multi-tenant is great. Well done. Tie up your loose ends and you've got a great product there. -Original

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Serious Problem with SNOM Attendant phones - N eedHelp

2005-09-28 Thread Colin Anderson
This won't address OP's problem, but in my install I had to grapple with weakness in the operator position (yes we use SNOM's not afraid to admit it, really like them) and to deal with that I had to change our corporate culture somewhat. The solution was to simply assign every user a DID and

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Attendant Phone

2005-09-28 Thread Colin Anderson
There is a SIP stack for a 5220 and 5235 which the sidecar attaches to but it is unclear as to whether it will work in SIP mode. We have one that is running MiNet and once I get rid of my 3300 I will experiment. Unfortunately, MiNet is here at my install for the remainder of 2005. -Original

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Looking for a configuration software

2005-09-27 Thread Colin Anderson
Very simple: vi extensions.conf What more do you need? With respect, that's not practical if the expectation is for the Asterisk platform is to hit critical mass. While other PBX vendors take the It's my way, or the highway approach to configuration, it's not enough for Asterisk to simply ape

RE: [Asterisk-biz] RE: Is there a pricing comparison somewhere?

2005-09-16 Thread Colin Anderson
Phones are phones, there's no scope there. I'm amazed by your Snom comment, have you used Polycoms? Well telephony is just not the same all over the world. Yup. I sampled quite a few phones to my users and the only one that they all agreed on was Snom. Technical issues aside, it was the only

RE: [Asterisk-biz] Is there a pricing comparison somewhere?

2005-09-15 Thread Colin Anderson
Mitel ICP3300: $1200 Cdn per seat for the midrange handset model, including voicemail and system access licences, not including base PBX ($30K to $80K Cdn depending on config) and not including the remote teleworker solution which allows a Mitel phone to be used offsite thru broadband, about $10K

RE: [Asterisk-biz] www.google.com/talk/

2005-08-24 Thread Colin Anderson
Nope: http://www.jivesoftware.org/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=102535#102535 However, that may change in the future assuming Google decides to follow their do no evil mantra and open it up. The Jive guys are looking into it:

RE: [Asterisk-biz] CID Spoofing

2005-07-27 Thread Colin Anderson
http://securityfocus.com/news/9061 http://www.camophone.com/(out of business) http://www.securityfocus.com/news/9822 Upshot is that it would be quasi-legal and risky as hell. The owner of star38.com scuttled it after he started getting death threats. No startup is

RE: [Asterisk-biz] 403 or 780 Candian DIDs

2005-06-23 Thread Colin Anderson
www.thinktel.ca talk to Jim Bell -Original Message- From: James Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 8:21 AM To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-biz] 403 or 780 Candian DIDs I will be looking for a small batch of DIDs in either of these area

[Asterisk-Biz] Anyone know www.netfone.ca?

2005-05-09 Thread Colin Anderson
www.netfone.ca insanely cheap local @ $12.95 /month cdn + unlimited calling to "90% of canadian cities" Anyone using this? They using SIP? Anyone tried an Asterisk server w/ them? tia ___ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com