technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
We have a number of Survivable Remote Gateways (SRG) across our network providing local PSTN and E-911 access for our smaller IP telephony deployments. We recently went about applying a number of cumulative updates and ran into a few different … [Continue reading]
It's finally official... Nortel has released v4.1.8.2 software for the Ethernet Routing Switch 8600. This latest code promises to put all the ARP/FDB issues that surfaced in the 4.1.6.x software branch to rest. It also promises to provide increased … [Continue reading]
We're preparing to deploying 300+ i2002/i2004 IP telephones over the next few weeks. In preparation for this deployment we decided to upgrade the current IP phone firmware from 0604DBG to 0604DCG. The site has a Nortel Succession 1000M Call Server … [Continue reading]
A few folks have asked how to they can setup their avatars so it shows up in the comments. The current WordPress theme I'm using is integrated with Gravatar. You simply need to visit the site and create an account using the same email address that … [Continue reading]
I'm not sure the majority of engineers realize that both Nortel and Cisco have directed broadcast disabled by default these days.I recently came across a problem where I needed to remotely start a PC that supported Wake On LAN. Since I do most of … [Continue reading]