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 The ShoreTel IPBX "Route Points" are powerful configuration tool, generally used to enable third party applications. Using route points, an external application can gain complete call control. For example, when you configure a ShoreTel Enterprise Contact Center, you will use route points to control call flow, media and routing options. The interaction with the route point is generally through TAPI and TAPI wave, but route points can be used to create other options for call control including call deflection and the creation of voice message repositories. Continue Reading...

Every call center has peaks and valleys.  Normal businesses using business voip operate with very predictable calling patterns.  Traffic over the normal business day, starts out slow and peaks between 10AM  and 2 PM on most voip for small business in the afternoon, then trickles down.  The old Bell Curve distribution pattern!   Continue Reading...

We have been actively working with VoIP since 1999!   Since 2001 we have installed well over 10,000 ShoreTel desktops and one characteristic of these VoIP environments has surfaced into high relief on the radar screen here in technical support:  A VoIP solution is only as good as the computer Network it runs on!    Network Monitoring - a Necessary Evil?  When someone mentions network monitoring, most network administrators immediately start thinking: overpriced, large server requirements, difficult to install, time-consuming to configure.  If those hurdles are overcome, then there's a potential rainbow at the end of the road: Immediate notification of problems, faster problem resolution, less downtime of services.  That equates to happier & more productive users, and a more profitable organization. What's interesting to realize is that the vast majority of companies all want to know the same things with their network:

• When do problems happen?
• Where are the problems?
• Why do these problems exist?

We have decided to create a product that eliminates all of the hurdles and answer these same questions no matter how large or complex a network was deployed.

 We can now:

• Deploy and auto-discovers your entire network in just a few minutes
• Continuously monitors the health of every device and interface on your network

 This allows for some proactive analysis that includes:

• Quickly learn which interfaces in your entire network are discarding packets
• Perform a call path mapping of the health of every interface used in a VoIP call
• Run a call simulation from any computer to any IP endpoint (including router interfaces)
• Know what your current Internet utilization is - live (updated every 2.5 seconds)
• Learn the switch and port where your VoIP phones are connected

Contact us today and we will send you a FREE completely operating network monitoring system for your evaluation.  Send a return email that lists:

• Company Name
• User Name
• User email address
• User phone number

And we will email you the download link and evaluation license code! Our only requirement is that you be a ShoreTel  system user.!  DrVoIP@DrVoIP.com Continue Reading...

Prior to version 7 of  ShoreTel, backing up your ShoreTel system was very straight forward. There was a single folder in the root directory named d:\ Shoreline data. This folder contained all the information that was required to completely restore your ShoreTel system from a bare metal server in the event of a major disaster. The folder contained the configuration database, which at the time was kept in Microsoft Access. Continue Reading...

Encryption of VoIP traffic was, for some of us a humorous concept. I remembered as a young development professional how much fun it was to use a packet sniffer to capture the bosses packets and reassemble his email over the LAN.  Years before that when I worked at the phone company as a central office test engineer, it was not uncommon to find an interesting phone call and plug it into the over head paging system to provide entertainment for the late night test  crew. There are times  I still think the concept of encryption on VoIP is humorous, but it is becoming less funny all the time as we move toward end to end VoIP with no TDM at all in a world populated by terrorists and other evil doers.  In any VoIP environment today, you can at some point use the usual tapping tools to capture a phone call as it hits the  TDM gateway and is converted from VoIP to traditional analog or digital signals.  From an induction coil to a line mans butt set, you can still intercept a VoIP call as it crosses the TDM boundary.

Now that VoIP is being used end to end, we do need to have a mechanism for encrypting at least the media stream.

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Voip Solutions
If you ask your average IT professional what a T span is, the usual response will be that it is a 1.5MB connection to the internet. Ask your average telecom tech what a T span is and you will be told it is 24 channels of dial tone! Ask a VoIP Engineer what a T span is and you should get the answer:, "what do you want it to be"? One of the great challenges of implementing a business VoIP solution is the absolute requirement that the implementation team possess an interdisciplinary skill set. Continue Reading...