FtOCC CE Technician is being presented in collaboration with Fonality, a leading open source telephony company and 888VoipStore, the leading source of IP PBX systems and equipment for resellers.

FtOCC CE Technician is a three-day technical certification course designed to train resellers and consultants how to support customers running trixbox CE systems.

Taught by Kerry Garrison, author of the books “trixbox Made Easy” and “trixbox 2.6” as well as Fonality technical instructors, FtOCC CE Technician includes an in-depth look at platform and application installation, carrier setup and integration, network configuration, echo causes and remedies, and other common issues.

FtOCC CE Technician is for Linux technicians and engineers who regularly support client installations. This course is a hands-on way for resellers who are new to trixbox CE to learn the ins and outs and master the basics of installing and maintaining those systems. It covers all of the core operations that a trixbox CE administrator needs to handle on a regular basis.

trixbox CE gives the channel a lucrative way to participate in the rapidly expanding market opportunity for open source products and services. ITEXPO is committed to educating the reseller community on new ways to increase their value in the marketplace and FtOCC CE Technician certification certainly will do that.

According to course instructor, Kerry Garrison, VP Strategy, 888VoipStore, TMC continues to be an authoritative voice for telephony and the data VAR channel. The convergence of the data network and phone networks open up huge opportunities for the traditional data VAR.

Attendees who complete the FtOCC CE Technician courses can expect to achieve the following objectives:

• Install and configure trixbox CE with confidence.
• Resolve installation, administration, and usage problems more quickly.
• Provision your own phones, decreasing turnaround time required for add-on phones and devices.
• Experience fewer problems by avoiding the usual “beginner” mistakes!
• Gain an in-depth understanding of how trixbox CE works (product, process, policy, protocol).

All attendees will receive a free Yealink T-28 IP Phone.

For additional information and registration please visit the trixbox CE FtoCC Page at TMCNET

Many people don’t realize just how easy it is to configure a Digium analog interface card with trixbox CE. Not that it is very difficult with other distros, its usually only a few simple commands, but trixbox CE makes it even easier with one command that configures the card very easily. The same setup-pstn command will work on all versions of trixbox CE since version 2.4.Once you have to card in the system, boot it up, log in as root and type the setup-pstn command. If you see the channels come up at the end then just type amportal restart and Asterisk will restart. Then you need to go into the web interface and make sure your trunks are configured properly. After that, you are ready to make and receive calls.

VoipStore.com Feature Solutions Partner Links

• Digium
• Digium products on 888VoipStore.com
• Fonality / trixbox
• trixbox products on 888VoipStore.com

Kerry Garrison and the team at VoipStore.com have posted another great product overview, this one is on the improved analog cards from Digium.

The Digium® TDM410 is a half-length PCI 2.2-compliant modular gateway card for connecting analog telephone stations and analog POTS lines through a PC. It supports a combination of up to four station or trunk modules for a total of 4 lines.

Using Digium’s Asterisk® software and standard PC hardware, one can create a telephony environment that includes all of the sophisticated features of a high-end business telephone system.

Using an industry-standard bursting, bus-mastering interface chip that is found within millions of PC systems worldwide, and Digium VoiceBus™ technology, the TDM410 eliminates the requirement for external gateways, with industry-leading performance and price. The trunk and station modules are interchangeable, allowing the creation of any combination of interfaces. The optional hardware echo cancellation module provides 1024 taps (128 milliseconds) of echo cancellation for superior voice quality on both trunk and station interfaces. Scaling of this solution is accomplished by adding additional TDM410 or other Digium analog interface cards.

Digium Analog cards, with there interchangeable single and quad FXS and FXO modules can eliminate the requirement for seperate channel banks or access gateways. Digiums commercial, toll-free quality High Performance Echo Cancellation (HPEC) software is available to our analog customers at no additional cost. The optional VPMADT032 hardware echo cancellation module provides the same toll-quality HPEC but without the perfoamce inpact of a software based solution. Scaling of an analog card solution is accomplished by adding additional cards and FXO / FXS modules.

Core Features

• 4 Ports for connecting analog telephones or POTS lines
• Half-length Analog Card
• Up to 4 FXS or FXO Modules
• High Performance Echo Cancellation (HPEC) Software (Optional)
• TDM410 for use with a PCI 2.2 compliant slot

888VoipStore.com: Digium Products Page

Kerry and the team at VoipStore.com have put together this great overview on the Digium TDM800P Analog cards.

The Wildcard TDM800P is a half-length PCI 2.2-compliant, 8 port card for connecting analog telephones and analog POTS lines through a PC. It supports combinations of FXS and/or FXO modules for a total of 8 lines.

The TDM800P provides an industry first with 8 standard two-wire, RJ-11 interfaces on a single PCI bracket. This eliminates the need for multiple brackets, external dongles, or splitters. In doing so, the TDM800P reduces part complexity, cable clutter, and points of failure.

The TDM800P contains two module banks. Each bank supports up to four analog interfaces. The module banks may be filled either with one standard Digium® quad analog module (FXS – S400M, FXO – X400M), or up to two standard Digium® single analog modules (FXS- S110M, FXO – X100M) enabling the creation of any combination of ports

The optional hardware echo cancellation module provides 1024 taps (128 milliseconds) of echo cancellation for superior echo cancellation on both FXO and FXS interfaces.

If the hardware echo cancellation module is not installed, the TDM800P may be used in conjunction with Digium’s High Performance Echo Cancellation (HPEC) software, a commercial and toll quality hybrid echo cancellation solution. Digium’s HPEC provides 16ms to 128ms of selectable near-end ITU G.168 compliant echo cancellation in software.

Using this card in concert with Digium’s Asterisk® software, standard PC hardware, and the Linux® OS, you can create SME or SOHO telephony environments capable of satisfying the needs of small or medium business applications at an industry-leading price.

Digium Analog cards, with their interchangeable single and quad FXS and FXO modules can eliminate the requirement for separate channel banks or access gateways. Digium’s commercial, toll-free quality High Performance Echo Cancellation (HPEC) software is available to our analog customers at no additional cost. The optional VPMADT032 hardware echo cancellation module provides the same toll-quality HPEC but without the performance impact of a software based solution. Scaling of an analog card solution is accomplished by adding additional cards and FXO / FXS modules.

• 8 RJ-11 interfaces on a single PCI bracket
• 8 Ports for connecting analog telephones or POTS lines
• Half-length Analog Card
• Up to 4 Single FXS or FXO Modules, or 2 Quad FXS or FXO Modules
• High Performance Echo Cancellation (HPEC) Software (Optional)
• VoiceBus™ technology

888VoipStore.com: Digium Products Page

The guys at 888VoipStore have published a couple of recent articles showing how to configure these phones with trixbox CE, trixbox Pro, and 3CX.

* Configuring Cisco 7960 Phones with trixbox CE / Pro

* Configuring Cisco 7940/7960 Phones with 3CX

• Part 1 – The Sales Meeting
• Part 2 – The Call Flow Design
• Part 3 – The Quote

Be sure and check out these articles and see if you can improve your own sales.

Product Information:

Switchvox SOHO remains offered only on the older model AA60 chassis.

Switchvox SMB on the AA60 has been fully replaced by Switchvox SMB on the AA65.

The AA300 has been fully replaced by the AA305.

The AA350 has been fully replaced by the AA355.

The LCD panel offers the following options and menu organization:

• View System Info
  • Administer your PBX at https://IP/admin
• Configure Network
  • Active Interface
    • eth1
    • eth0
  • Set DHCP / Static
    • DHCP
    • Static
  • Change IP Address
    • 192.168.0.20 (Note this is an example, not a default IP)
  • Change Subnet mask
    • 255.255.255.0 (Note this is an example, not a default subnet mask)
  • Change Gateway
    • 192.168.0.1 (Note this is an example, not a default gateway)
  • Change DNS Server
    • 192.168.0.100 (Note this is an example, not a default DNS server)
• Reboot PBX
  • Yes / No
• Shutdown PBX
  • Yes / No
• Reset HTTPs Certificate
  • Yes / No
• Tech Support Access
  • Enable Yes / No
• Restore Web Access
  • Yes / No
• Reset Administrator Password
• Change LCD Password

Interview with Serge Forest – VP Marketing for Sangoma

Source: VoipStore.com

Interview with Mike Storella from snom

Source: VoipStore.com

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—April 6, 2009—Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced Fax For Asterisk, a complete, cost-effective platform for the development of fax solutions. The offering provides Asterisk users and integrators a suite of user-friendly applications and a licensed version of the industry-leading fax modem software from Commetrex. To meet the demanding requirements of business users, Fax For Asterisk provides reliable faxing across the Internet and public switched telephone network (PSTN).

Asterisk is the most widely used open source telephony platform. The software is available free of charge and has been downloaded millions of times for use by individual developers and systems integrators creating custom telephony solutions for businesses. Asterisk is also available as the professional-grade and commercially supported Asterisk Business Edition.

“Asterisk users, developers and integrators now have a toolkit allowing them to integrate fax with their phone systems,” said Bill Miller, vice president of product management at Digium. “With Fax For Asterisk, Digium offers a reliable and fully supported fax solution.”

Fax For Asterisk interoperates with standards-compliant fax machines connected to Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 on x86 Linux systems. It provides low-speed PSTN faxing via DAHDI-compatible telephony interface cards as well as VoIP faxing to T.38-compatible SIP end points and service providers. Fax For Asterisk operates at speeds up to 14.4kbps and supports V.17, V.27 and V.29 fax modems.

Fax For Asterisk is available free of charge from the Digium webstore at http://store.digium.com/ for one concurrent fax session. Multi-session licenses are available for a one-time fee of $38.50 per channel. Fax For Asterisk is available immediately. Fax capabilities for Digium’s Switchvox IP PBX were announced in February of this year and are based on this solution. For more details, visit www.digium.com.

About Digium

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.

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