book review – trixbox CE 2.6 by Kerry Garrison

Posted by Adrian on May 14, 2009 in Open Source | 0 comments I was contacted by the publishers of this new book recently and offered a copy for review of a new book written to support users of Trixbox such as us. Well I’ve read through it, and this is my opinion. I have never really gone looking for a book such as this, as in most circumstances when we need support I look on google or call our IT support company.  In this respect I dont know what...
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Our most painful experience of migrating to Open Source – trixbox softphone clients using Hudlite arent good enough

Posted by Adrian on Feb 8, 2009 in business, Open Source | 13 comments As previoulsy blogged, we completed our migration in full to open source over Xmas, and have been running everyting possible on open source for 5 weeks now.  Without doubt the biggest problem, and source of legitimate continual complaints from our staff, our customers, and anyone who used the system, was our trixbox phone instalation.  Negative symptoms included: very poor call quality, so...
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setting up a free business phone system using trixbox

Posted by Adrian on Sep 30, 2008 in Open Source | 0 comments The last big task in our complete migration to open source has been moving our phone system from swyx to Trixbox, the free and open source package containing linux, astrix, free pbx and lots of other packages to make a it stand alone scalelable phone system.  We involved Senokian from early days to get it working, as like a lot of these things, linux without a good sys admin can be a lonely...
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