The 3Com NBX telephone system was introduced in 1999 and was the first serious IP PBX on the marketplace. TeleDynamic was a leading Bay Area provider of the system for many years. While 3Com was purchased by HP and the NBX declared obsolete, there are still a decent number of the systems performing admirably after…

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.   …