
Configure redundant static WAN routes when ShoreTel is in the data center?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersInstalling your ShoreTel HQ server at the Data Center is becoming a standard deployment practice to increase business continuity during network and power outages and other disasters. One of the most common Ask DrVoIP question we hear is…

ShoreTel SIP, Mobility Router & the Firewall (Part 1)
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersThis is not a SIP tutorial, only an overview on the issues that impact remote SIP phones on any iPBX. When you set up a SIP call between two end points, there are upwards of four "holes" that might need to be punched in your firewall for…

How to Ring more than 16 phones in a ShoreTel Hunt Group?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersHow to ring more than 16 phones in a ShoreTel Hunt Group? Can't say that we recommend this strategy, but none the less, we continue to see business applications in which the client insists on ringing a group of 16+ phones simultaneously! …

What is new in ShoreTel 13?
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersThere are a number of major enhancements to ShoreTel in Version 13. Most enhancements have been related to bringing ShoreTel SIP into compliance with the standards accepted by the SIP community at large. Though there are enhancements for…

ShoreTel SIP Trunks meet the Scopserv!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical Managers Anyone who thinks Asterisk is a toy is not playing in the real world of VoIP Telephony. You may be surprised to learn how many commercial product offerings are built on an Asterisk base. For this reason, we have become more involved in this…

ShoreTel analog connections and the 66 Block!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersIt is surprising that in the 21st century we are still punching down copper lines! None the less fax machines, credit card devices, postage machines and security circuits still populate the installed base of telephone systems. If you are converting…

Configuring SIP Trunks on ShoreTel!
Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe continue to get a lot of questions about SIP trunks and how best to use them on ShoreTel. Our preferred strategy at this point, is to focus on a TIE line solution that brings both off premise extensions and DID numbers into the ShoreTel.…

ShoreTel - Does a "single image" deployment always make sense?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersWe continue to be a major fan of ShoreTel solutions, but that does not mean that they we accept everything without question. One of the most touted advantages of the ShoreTel architecture is the concept of a "single image" solution with no…

Compare ShoretTel and CISCO Part 3 – Users and phones
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersAll of the architecture "geek speak" aside, CISCO and ShoreTel have fundamental "cultural" differences that defines their approach to the entities of a "phone" and a "user". Simply stated in the ShoreTel world a phone can not exist…

Compare ShoreTel & CISCO Part 2 - System Admin Portal
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Multi-vendor Telephony, Technical ManagersAll telephone systems have to deal with the same key architectural issues regardless of who manufactured the equipment. All phone systems have to provide for the definition of a system "dial plan"; trunk groups, call flow options, phone…

Deploying ShoreTel - A project managers notes!
Business Managers, Legacy Services, ShoreTel & Mitel, Technical ManagersHaving deployed literally thousands of phone systems of all sizes and levels of complexity, we have distilled a set of rules and check lists that work. (see our "network readiness check list" and our "VoIP planning guide") When phone systems…

Hosted “virtual” phone system or own your own?
Business Managers, Legacy Services, Telephony ArchivesWe are often asked for an opinion on the subject of what is better solution: a hosted "virtual" PBX or owning your own phone system? Lets take a look a quick look at both solutions and see if anything stands out as making one solution…
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