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**** MARCH 2008 ****

Welcome to Comms Connect's industry newsletter. Our aim is to provide you (our resellers) with relevant and up to date industry news and developments from our sales/technical departments and our vendors.

News

cclogo Comms Connect is moving office!

Comms Connect is relocating to a brand new office located at 32 Delhi Road, North Ryde, which is scheduled to be completed in mid-April 2008. Neighbouring the new office are leading international corporations including Microsoft, BOC Gas, CSIRO & HP Compaq to name a few. The office is also within 300m distance from the new North Ryde underground station (expected to open later this year), with direct links to Chatswood, Macquarie Centre & Epping. We are confident that the lifestyle changes that will come with settling in to a new office will be beneficial for both our employees and our resellers.

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cclogo Quintum® Tenor VoIP Hybrid Gateway Wins 2008 BEST OF SHOW AWARD at Internet Telephony Show in Miami

This new hybrid product is a single box solution, specifically designed to allow customers to easily integrate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 into existing enterprise voice networks allowing businesses to leverage their past voice network investments and to minimize disruptions to their business.

The Tenor Hybrid Gateway features Quintum’s Unified Communications Proxy (UCP) that addresses critical needs for deploying Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007, which traditional VoIP gateways do not address.

Sales Information

cclogo PortaSip Selective Call Processing feature - MR16

"Selective Call Processing" feature of MR16 enables the subscriber to program very flexible call flows both for centrex and Auto Attendand (hosted IP PBX) functionality of PortaUM. Sometimes incoming calls need to be treated differently, i.e,

- calls from your boss or secretary should reach you on your mobile phone even during the weekend, while other calls can go to voicemail.
- calls in the evening hours should go straight to your mobile phone, while calls from your ex-girlfriend should always go to voicemail.

With the "Selective Call Processing" feature, a subscriber can define a set of rules that will be applied to every incoming call. Each rule may include a set of conditions based on the "calling number" (e.g. you can list extensions for your boss and secretary, your home phone, your wife’s cell phone number, and so on.), called number condition or the time when the call is made (this is ideal to make sure your phone will not ring in the middle of the night).
When an incoming call matches a certain rule, one of several possible call processing scenarios will be executed:

- Ring, Forward, Voicemail
- Ring then Forward
- Ring then Voicemail
- Forward then Voicemail
- Ring only
- Forward only
- Voicemail only
- Reject

If "Selective Call PRocessing" is disabled, then the above rules can be used under "Service Features' tab without the added flexibility.

Technical Information

cclogo Asterisk Radius client and its integration to PortaOne.

Below are the links with regards to Asterisk Radius client and its integration to PortaOne.

RADIUS Client for Asterisk
This GPL project brings RADIUS AAA capabilities to Asterisk PBX. It is written entirely in Perl, so it is 100% portable and easy to understand and customize!
Download the archive file!

PortaOne Has Developed an Updated RADIUS Module for Asterisk 1.4
RADIUS attributes are used according to Cisco VSA Voice Implementation Guide which provides compatibility with billing platforms, including PortaBilling100. The new RADIUS module is issued right before AstriCon 2007 in Pheonix, AZ where PortaOne will present it to the general public.

PortaOne's Radius client for Asterisk
This GPL project brings RADIUS AAA capabilities to Asterisk PBX. It is written entirely in Perl, so it is 100% portable and easy to understand and customize! RADIUS attributes are used as per Cisco VSA Voice Implementation Guide, which provides compatibility with many billing platforms (i.e. PortaBilling100)

How To register Asterisk server as a SIP client to PortaOne
If you purchased a DID from a SP using PortaOne platform and want to use it with Asterisk PBX, there are two ways

First one -----> to have mapping between your IP and DID
Second one ----> to register Asterisk as a SIP client to PortaOne with username and password

Please contact support@commsconnect.com.au for more information.