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Designing and Implementing an IP Paging System – How to Intercom with VoIP (4 of 4)

Note: This is the 4th and final installment of a four part series detailing the design and implementation of an IP paging (paging over VoIP) system:  Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
What is an intercom call?
Intercom differs from paging because in an intercom call, a single user will intercom another user or endpoint and essentially [...]

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Designing and Implementing an IP Paging System – Legacy Paging Systems (3 of 4)

Note: This is the 3rd installment of a four part series detailing the design and implementation of an IP paging (paging over VoIP) system:  Part 1 and Part 2.
More often than not, a customer will say to me, Chris we are implementing this brand new IP PBX and IP phones and we currently have an existing analog based [...]

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Designing and Implementing an IP Paging System (2 of 4)

Note:  This is the 2nd installment of a four part series detailing the design and implementation of an IP paging (paging over VoIP) system. Part 1 is here.
To start off our second segment on IP Paging we will continue to talk about the two methods that IP Paging is delivered in:

Unicast
Multicast

In both of these paging environments, two types of [...]

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Designing and Implementing an IP Paging System (1 of 4)

Note:  This is the 1st installment of a four part series detailing the design and implementation of an IP paging (paging over VoIP) system.
In many new or existing voice over IP deployments, integrating existing paging systems or deploying new IP based paging systems is becoming a much needed necessity.
In this series we will first detail the two common [...]

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3CX Versus Asterisk

Windows…Er…3CX vs. Asterisk
We all know the capabilities and endless feature set of Asterisk. It’s a powerful, software based PBX, that’s possibilities are endless. Asterisk is distributed in a number of ways, the first being the open sourced distribution that is command line driven. This distribution, 1.6.2.11 being the latest stable version can be downloaded from [...]

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VoIP Failover with Xorcom Twinstar

Introducing Twinstar…what do you know about Failover!!!
If you are new to the VoIP game or are a seasoned veteran, we all know that in business…we need to be able to make and receive phone calls. Most businesses rely on this type of communication to handle the day to day business activities. Also, it is required [...]

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