Aastra Firmware update : Includes New DST rules

Aastra Telecom is pleased to announce the availability of a new software update for our Enterprise IP portfolio of SIP telephones including Models 9133i, 9112i, 480i, 480i CT, 53i, 55i, 57i and 57iCT.

The new software includes:

- Support to the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules affecting most jurisdictions of the US, Canada and Bermuda.

Please refer to the attached Knowledge Base document or the software release notes posted on the website for more details.

The new firmware update and documentation are freely available from the Aastra website.
Firmware: http://www.aastratelecom.com/support/enterpriseip/show_downloads.asp
Documentation: http://www.aastratelecom.com/support/enterpriseip/show_manuals.asp

announce: new zaptel release 1.2.14

The Asterisk and Zaptel development team has released version 1.2.14 of
Zaptel.

This release contains only minor changes, the most important of which
relates to single-port module support on Digium's TDM800P analog
interface card (previously these modules were not properly recognized by
the driver).

Thanks for supporting Asterisk and Zaptel!

Hacker On/Off Switch for Public Phones – Historical Post

Not really VOIP related, but telephony related..

Found in my backups and put here for historical purposes :)

A long time ago I worked at Staples. This was back when I was living in London, Ontario. Anyway, there was this guy that kept coming in and he'd constantly use our public phone to do his business. I'm pretty sure it was some shady business too, he would speak to his prospects and talk about meeting them on street corners and down alleys in the city. It wasn't uncommon for this guy to come in and sit there for a couple hours and talk on the phone, lay out his little portfolio, and get his notepad, calculator and pen out and start making calls. Even after repeated attempts to get him to leave he still would come back. So, I decided to teach him a lesson..

So, I built an inline switch that I could use to turn the phone on and off when people were using it. I let the store general manager know of my plans, he was a cool guy and went along with many of my schemes. My direct manager not so much, so he didn't know until well after the fact. I never updated the original story, but he did eventually stop coming after repeated phone hangups.. He even complained about our telephone line, which we told him was supposed to get repaired. h3h.

Below is my original post from 3 or 4 years ago and the pictures go go along with it..

[asterisk-biz] Zoiper softphone 1.03 available

Hello again guys!

We released a new ZoIPer BIZ BETA (version 1.03).
You can experience better look and more advanced features. Finally MS
Vista fans can also make use of it.

Zoiper BIZ BETA is available free of charge from www.zoiper.com.
There you can find out more about the improvements and features.
We are also offering customization packages for ZoIPeR Free Windows.

Zoiper is a multiprotocol: SIP and IAX / IAX2 softphone, supporting
native conferencing, g729(optionally), Call recording, callto URL
protocol, autoanswer and much more.

For more information please consult:
www.zoiper.com
www.attractel.com

Greetings,
Mira

New Asterisk 1.2.15 and Zaptel 1.2.13 released!

For those of you running the latest stable (not 1.4) new releases are uponeth you..

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce the release of
Asterisk 1.2.15.

This release contains a large number of bug fixes, and some significant
improvements:

* Support for Zaptel-based transcoder hardware, initially the Digium
TC400B 92/96 channel transcoder.

* Handling of voicemail subdirectories when using ODBC storage has
been improved, so that messages can be forwarded properly.

* A problem with forwarding voicemails from folders other than the
user's INBOX has been fixed.

* The Zaptel channel driver can now support echo cancellers that provide
64ms or 128ms of echo cancellation per channel.

Thanks for your support of Asterisk and Zaptel!

and

The Asterisk development team is pleased to announce the release of
Zaptel 1.2.13.

This release contains a large number of bug fixes, an important
performance improvement for most Digium cards, and support for new
Digium hardware and some significant improvements in the XPP driver for
Xorcom's Astribank hardware.

In detail:

* A modification was made to the drivers for all Digium PCI cards to
improve their compatibility and performance when used in interrupt
sharing environments.

* Support for the Digium TDM800P 8-port analog interface card was added.

* Support for the Digium TC400B 92/96-channel transcoder card was added.

* Support for the Digium High Performance Echo Canceller add-on software
module was added.

* All drivers updated to Linux kernel 2.6.20 API changes.

* Performance improvements for multiple Astribank units.

* Astribank firmware protocol version is now 2.4.

* Astribank now supports Message Waiting light on analog telephone sets.

* Added a /proc interface to blink the leds on the Astribank to
identify ports in large setups.

* fxotune is now supported by Astribank.

All users of Zaptel 1.2.x are encouraged to update to this release as
soon as they can practically do so. Thanks for your support of Asterisk
and Zaptel!

[-users] Unicall/R2 for Asterisk 1.4 Available for TESTING

Im glad to let you know that finally I invested some time to make work
Unicall in Asterisk 1.4, I must say not much testing could be done
since I have no hardware available ( cards, servers ), however a
friend was able to test it with a couple of calls with success, I need
you to test this and report some feedback.

The sources are available in:

http://moy.ivsol.net/unicall/soft-switch/r1b1/

Kind Regards

Moises Silva

Unlimitel releases VOIPALARM monitoring package for linux

Got this today from my friends at unlimitel.

Dear customer,

Here's another excellent news for all Linux lovers using Unlimitel's services:

Our team worked really hard this weekend to create a Linux daemon version of our VoIP monitoring tool. Just run the application on your Linux server and build your own application to read the alarm results from the text file generated by the application!

You can download the application from this link:

http://www.unlimitel.ca/temp/voipalarm.tgz

You need to use it with your username, password and the file to write the alarm results. This information was sent to you in our last email about the Windows version of the VoIP monitoring tool.

voipalarm

We also included a one page PDF document explaining the text format of the alarm file.

Thank you,

Stephan Monette
Unlimitel Inc.

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