During this slow time of the year, I thought it would be a good idea to update 3Com NBX owners on the status of product support for their PBX. The NBX small business PBX product family has had a long, successful run over the last 12 years.  TeleDynamic has sold and supported the product since the very…

11 days of birds, expensive jewelry, single women, acrobatic aristocrats and bad musicians, and we end with banging on drums?  What I wouldn't give for a silent partridge and a glass of spiced rum about now. Instead, VoIP is banging the drum hard for another new great technology. Fixed Mobile Convergence This is a relatively…

I barely cleaned up after those acrobatic leaping lords and here come those unruly Scotts and their irksome bags of wind. Which reminds me: Q. Why are bagpipers fingers like lightning? A. They rarely strike the same spot twice. Q. Why do bagpipers walk

There is a theory that The 12 Days of Christmas carol has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning, plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Roman Church in England long ago. Each element in the carol was a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember. It is…

Broad minded as she is, my Honey said "No, no, no, there will be no gaggle of lasses delivered to our doorstep this Christmas...or any other Christmas, for that matter!" I briefly thought about re-gifting, but that wasn't such a good idea. So, VoIP, give me something more practical that won't get me in trouble.   …

Eight Maids a Milking!  I grew up on the farm, and I can speak from experience that's a lot of milk!  The average cow in the United States produces 6.2 gallons of milk per day. That means 48 gallons of milk per day (and they don't take holidays either!). At the real risk of lactic…

Seven Swans a swimming...  I hear that swan meat is supposed to be quite tasty and from ancient times to the nineteenth century, roast swan was on the menu for the King's Christmas dinners and other royal banquets. Since the nineteenth century, the turkey has replaced the swan as the bird of choice for fall…

I've never been much of a jewelry person, so somebody stuffing my stocking with five loops of gold seems like an unneeded extravagance.Being the ever practical giver, VoIP offered me an alternative: SIP Trunking.SIP TrunkingI know what you are thinking, it's not very personal and even seems a bit crass. However, as a business owner, I'll take…

Well, I'll be darned if I don't learn something new every day. All these years I thought they were four Calling Birds, but upon further research, the original verse described "Colly Birds." In old England, a blackbird was called a Colly Bird. Once my true love discovered that four imported blackbirds would be out of…

Since we have limited room for livestock here at our office, the care and feeding of three french hens would be problematic. Switchvox Premise PBX Rather, my true love suggested the gift of a Switchvox Premise PBX. The system has a very powerful Unified Communications portal called the Switchboard. It provides a phone book that allows