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Unified Communications

Cisco IP Phone Services: Unrecognized Benefit

This blog post originally was going to be simply about how I can turn on and  off my home CCIE-W lab rack with my 7921 and 7970 IP Phones but when I started to think about how to develop the post I realized it could be much more. With increased functionality and benefits being all [...]

Asterisk VoIP, Cisco, Unified Communications

Cisco OfficeExtend – Always Connected

Over the past few weeks I’ve received a few tweet’s asking if anyone has setup Cisco’s OfficeExtend solution and what were some of the gotchas that you ran into. After this last round I decided I might as well blog about it, so here goes! What is it? The Cisco OfficeExtend solution does as its [...]

Cisco, Unified Communications, Wireless

Blake the Cisco Guru

Cisco, General, Unified Communications

boxee + Asterisk = Caller ID Fun!

While browsing around the PBX In A Flash forums I came across a post about getting incoming call notifications on XBMC and immediately thought this would be great with boxee as well seen as we use that every now and then on our Apple TV. The setup was a little bit on the painful side [...]

Apple, Asterisk VoIP, Unified Communications

Talk 2.0: Unified Communications

So I’ve been thinking a lot about Unified Communications lately as it’s something that I might be doing a lecture on at the University of Minnesota this fall and I started to wonder is this going to be the next big thing in communications? If you look back at communications and how we have evolved [...]

Asterisk VoIP, General, Unified Communications