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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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
A robot wrote this article
I recently came across a research project called ChatGPT which is an artificial intelligence designed specifically to understand written language and to chat online in a very convincing way. So it tries to sound human – great. But it also knows… nearly everything. Because it’s an AI that seems to have consumed most of the… Continue Reading
Perimeta Tips: Specify alarms to avoid silent failure
We try to keep the content of these articles varied – a mix of product info, industry events, operational best practices and technical tips. Today we’re going to double-down on the technical tips side of things, and share a best practice related to the Perimeta Session Border Controller. If you don’t know what an SBC… Continue Reading
Easy or Scalable? Three Generations of Metaswitch Translations Logic
I hate gardening. It’s hard physical work, I’m not very good at it, and I don’t really care about plants or flowers – so there’s not really much reward for all the labor. However, when we lived in Cleveland, my wife allocated part of the front yard for tomato plants – and I was amazed… Continue Reading
The Hawaii missile false alarm – and cyber security
Do you remember where you were on Saturday, January 13, 2018? If you lived in Hawaii, you would. This was the day when Hawaii residents received an emergency alert on their phone stating:Emergency AlertBallistic Missile Threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill. It took 13 minutes before state officials began… Continue Reading