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
Technical
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
How does DTMF work with VoIP?
For some reason we have recently encountered a cluster of issues recently where DTMF tones are not successfully traversing the network. So what better time for a quick educational article explaining how DTMF is supposed to work in a VoIP network? What is DTMF? In case anyone is not familiar, DTMF stands for dual-tone multi-frequency… Continue Reading
Emergency Standalone with Metaswitch CFS and TelcoBridges Tmedia
In this article we’ll explore how to provide Emergency Standalone (ESA) function when you have a TelcoBridges media gateway operating with a Metaswitch CFS. Late last year Metaswitch and TelcoBridges announced a partnership to provide greater interoperability between the Metaswitch ecosystem and Tmedia media gateways, with the intent that TelcoBridges media gateways could serve as… Continue Reading
The LERG: Telecoms heaven for data nerds
When I was a kid my favorite sport was cricket. (Actually that’s still true.) I found cricket particularly appealing because it was chock-full of numbers. I could (and can) tell you that Don Bradman’s test batting average is 99.94, or that the highest score by an Englishman was Len Hutton’s 364 at the Oval in… Continue Reading