I’m a little behind the curve here, but I just discovered that since Perimeta V4.4.20 it has been possible to copy a call-policy-set in the CLI. Hallelujah! (Apparently my team has known this for a while, but I’ve not been doing much technical work myself recently.) For those who have no idea what I’m talking… Continue Reading
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Handlebars and Headaches: A Tale of Mountain Biking and Project Management
When I was a teenager my family took a vacation in Pitlochry, Scotland – which was beautiful and amazing… except for the day we went mountain biking. The uphill part was okay. I mean, it was exhausting as you might expect, but otherwise passed uneventfully. No, it turns out the downhill is the tough part… Continue Reading
The Delicates of Delegation: Managing Like You’re Doing Laundry
I have a hard time doing laundry. In our family the laundry isn’t really assigned to any particular person – it’s just handled by whoever happens to get around to it. Or who gets the most desperate. I usually wait until the last possible minute, and then I am faced with a decision – do… Continue Reading
My unexpected trip to the ER – why expertise matters
Thursday February 9 started out as a pretty normal day. Our team gathered for our daily video call to compare notes on current work and then I began catching up on my overnight email. So far so good, but then I suddenly found that I couldn’t see properly. I wasn’t sure exactly what was wrong,… Continue Reading
A brief history of phone numbers
Today we’re announcing a new service for our clients: If you sign up for our LERG Refresh service we’ll provide quarterly updates to your Metaswitch translations that include the latest information from the LERG (new NPA-NXXs in your rate centers and LATAs) so that you’re able to successfully route and bill all calls correctly. Please… Continue Reading
Taming Flippant Fluctuations in your VoIP Network
There’s no chatty preamble today, because I’ve got a puzzle for you. Are you ready? Let’s suppose that you want to build a nice redundant VoIP network, and so you deploy two Session Border Controllers in geo-diverse locations, along with a single Metaswitch CFS. These two SBCs have IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 2.2.2.2 (because you… Continue Reading