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VoIPSupply Labs: Tip for Cisco IP Phone Owners Migrating to SIP Version 12

To all Cisco CP-7940G/60G owners thinking about upgrading to Cisco’s new SIP Version 12.0 firmware….please pay attention and avoid a migraine!
Being that I run a Cisco CP-7940G on my desk with SIP protocol (under Smartnet Maintenance Contract), I received a notification in my email inbox sometime last week from Cisco telling me that the latest [...]

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VoIPSupply Labs: Integrating Nokia “E” Series Phones with Switchvox PBX (Plus Asterisk or any SIP IP PBX)

Do you already own a Nokia “E” Series mobile phone, or are you considering purchasing one? The Nokia “E” series phones, although not inexpensive, offer the flexibility of both GSM and WiFi/SIP calling, and can be integrated with most SIP based IP PBX platforms. For the purpose of this article, we chose [...]

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Tech Tip: Programming a “Hold” Button on the Snom 300

The Snom 300 has everything you could ask for in a budget-minded, business class SIP desk phone…..Dual RJ45 Ethernet Ports, 2-Line LCD Display, Power Over Ethernet and G.729a support. At a street price of $119.95, the Snom 300 represents a tremendous value.
The only gripe I have heard levied against the Snom 300 is the [...]

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5 Ways to Minimize the “Hassle” of Switching to VoIP

Earlier today Doug Mohney wrote a piece at FierceVoIP about the resistance to migration many cable providers are facing from business customers. In the word’s of one cable company exec, “Nobody wakes up and says, ‘Today I’m going to change all the phones in my business.”
While this may be true, switching to VoIP isn’t a [...]

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Labs: Setting Up the Polycom VVX 1500 with Switchvox

Earlier this week we unboxed the new Polycom VVX 1500 Video Phone and promised to share some details of our experience in integrating the VVX 1500 with Switchvox SMB 4.0, the IP PBX that we currently run in production at VoIPSupply.com.

Getting the voice side of things up and running was easy, but we quickly ran [...]

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Adding Telephony to iPhone Applications

One of the great things about the iPhone is the ability to add a variety of different applications. But outside of the applications for mobile VoIP providers, there aren’t too many iPhone applications that feature telephony capabilities.
Now this is likely due to the fact that iPhone developers have no clue when it comes to telephony. [...]

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