Graves On SOHO VoIP

A Tale Of Wonky Wifi Part 1: Netgear & Cisco

mjgraves — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:58:54 +0000

One of the things that Santa brought over the holidays was a new Wifi access point. Back in November our Netgear router/AP just up and died. In fact, that was the third time in 18 months that the Netgear device has failed. It was twice replaced under warranty. On the occasion of this third failure [...]

Thinking Outside The Box: SIP Hard Phone + External Speakerphone

mjgraves — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:18:21 +0000

I find that I’m simply drawn to novel and innovative approaches to problems. In the VUC post-call ramble this past week Michael White of E4Technologies described something that’s stuck in my mind as being pretty cool. He was working with a large-company-who-shall-remain-nameless on a very significant installation. It was going along well. They had selected a [...]

Review: Yamaha PSG-01s Personal USB Speakerphone

mjgraves — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:22:59 +0000

A few months back I received a sample of a new USB attached personal speakerphone device made by Yamaha. It arrived about the same time that I started looking for a better solution for ad-hoc conference calls in small rooms, like hotel rooms. You may recall that I felt this need after the experience after [...]

Pondering The Plantronics Savi Go…Further, Please.

mjgraves — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:51:13 +0000

Over the past few months I’ve unconsciously made a curious transition. You see, last summer all of my requirements for mobility around the office were met by the Gigaset S675IP that I have installed. When I had to work near a server at my workbench I just grabbed the S67H handset and went over there. Often I [...]

Polycom Display Sizes Compared

mjgraves — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:33:33 +0000

My recent review of the Polycom SoundPoint IP335 raised an interesting question in some readers minds. several readers wanted to know about the comparative sizes of the LCD displays across the various SoundPoint models. Since I have the IP335, an IP450 and my trusty IP650 in-house at the moment it was just a matter of [...]

Trouble With Your U-Verse Service?

mjgraves — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:41:58 +0000

Now here’s something truly odd. This afternoon I took Shadow out for a walk through the neighborhood. This was just our usual PM stroll. However, about three blocks from our house we stumbled upon an AT&T wiring cabinet…unlocked and wide open. There was no AT&T truck anywhere in sight. I looked around and waited for a [...]

Aastra 6730i: The Most Affordable HDVoice Capable Desk Phone?

mjgraves — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:03:43 +0000

The folks at Junction Networks / OnSIP have recently posted a review of the Aastra 6730i, a recent entry-level offering in the Aastra lineup. The entire 67xx series features Aastra’s Hi-Q technology. Hi-Q includes the combination of the G.722 wideband codec and software based compensation for the physical properties of the transducers on the device. You might [...]

Meta: The Topical Scope Of My Blogging

mjgraves — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:34:46 +0000

Blogging about blogging is a kind of meta-blogging. I’ve not done much of that as yet, but this is something of a start. I’m even adding “meta” as a category for posts. Now on to the idea at hand… In recent years VoIP has been one of my passions. It’s hard to know whether that been [...]

ENUM Revisited

mjgraves — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:45:33 +0000

Over at Ars Technica Rudolf van der Berg has a nice story called, “ENUM: Dragging telephone numbers into the Internet Age.” The story includes a some nice background on the history of phone numbers and the possibilities presented by ENUM. To get a little more into ENUM you need to go back in time just a [...]

On Being Incredibly Bright & Being LED Astray

mjgraves — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:08:59 +0000

Back in the 1970’s when I was a kid my parents eventually succumb to my pleading and bought me one of those nice 100-In-1 kits that were found at every Radio Shack. It was a blast. However, the components that held the greatest interest were those that could actually been seen to do something…especially the [...]