New website
Work on the new, improved Four Lakes website has started in earnest now, and for the moment I’m looking at Joomla as a CMS solution. My current site, whilst reasonably professional looking, is extremely limited in functionality and, indeed, in the total number of pages I can publish. The current plan is to develop a LAMP/Joomla based site* using one of the hundreds (if not thousands) of...
Atcom AT-530 firmware update
Just noticed that Atcom have a new firmware available for the AT-530 (v070813). Right now there does not seem to be any information on their website about what issues it is supposed to address, or what features it adds (nothing I can see). However, in the interests of my loyal readers, I decided to install it anyway and check it out for you. As far as I can see, there are no new features,...
The issues with ceding control
Some time ago the Skype network suffered a 48-hour outage, rather embarrassing for a company offering a service to individuals, an absolute catastrophe for a company hoping to break into the business VoIP market. The one over-riding need every business has from its phone system is that when you go to place a call, it just works. Not most of the time, or 99.9% of the time, every single time you...
Asterisk-based PBX saves money and improves service
An interesting news item on the Teleappliant site here. Of course, Teleappliant aren’t the only company to offer an Asterisk-based PBX ...
Mobile VoIP
One sometimes overlooked advantage of using VoIP technology over traditional telephony solutions is the enablement of remote access to the phone system. So rather than having to physically be at your desk (or at least in the office if you use a DECT phone), you can now have your work phone number follow you around wherever you have internet access. Many corporations, and a number of smaller...
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