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Questions tagged [telephone]

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Automated telephone call about sending spam mails

We just got a call from a US telephone number (001-, didn't get the rest of it) with an automated voice, stating that someone had sent spam mails from a server located in Berlin. I didn't take the call, my colleague just got the first part of the…
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Headset for phone calls in the datacenter

Datacenters are noisy places. On occasion it is necessary for an administrator or technician to troubleshoot a problem in the datacenter while on a phone call or conference call. Unfortunately, these can be long, drawn out conversations, depending…
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Adding "T" Records to Domain Names (Idea That Came to Me in a Dream)

I was dreaming about the DNS system and how awesome it is. In my dream I realized that my cell phone had a somewhat similar system to DNS built in – when I browse to a contact and select someone to call, the phone automatically resolves the name to…
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Tool to test analog phone line connection quality

An ancillary job of mine is to support an analog phone line for our credit card machine. From time to time AT&T changes out hardware in the core which causes the machine's modem to not connect over the phone line. Testing the line by plugging in an…
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Any good phone system on a Windows Environment?

I am looking for a phone system that integrate well with an (almost) 100% Microsoft environment. I would like something that can integrate with Exchange and Active Directory (in-phone searching/calling by name (is this possible using SIP ?), etc)…
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Cheap VoIP Phone Recommendation

I'm looking for an inexpensive corded VoIP phone for my home office that supports SIP. I've been using an old Cisco 7905G with SIP firmware but I'm concerned about security considering that it's REAAALLLY old and has been unsupported for several…
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Datacenter Colocation Phone

In my cage I don't get good enough phone reception. A phone that goes over the network also doesn't seem ideal for when I am working on the network. Do people have traditional phones delivered to their cages? I am wondering what my options are.
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How to get my fax modem to work with newer phone lines (and HylaFax)

For a long time I've been using a HylaFax server and an old external 56k serial port modem. It has worked great on our POTS lines. Recently we just upgraded our location and it now has an AT&T Fiber connection, and the telephone lines are all…
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How to move a Panasonic kx-t7633 Phone

We have Panasonic kx-T7633 phones and I need to move them across office how do I activate or fix the connection after I move the phone Looked at the manual but no answers and googled it as well any help appreciated Phone Model is Panasonic KX-T7633,…
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How do I move a number between two Alcatel Lucent 4029 Handsets

I'm trying to find a manual online and I'm not having any luck. I need to know the deregister/reregister procedure for an Alcatel Lucent 4029 handset. I'm trying to move a number from one desk to another one, so we just need to deregister handset…
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Phone solution for virtual company

I am looking for recommendations/links for a service that can give/assign me a phone number, have a recorded messages played when someone calls such as "press 1 for ..., press 2 for yyy etc" and then allow the caller to leave a message that is then…
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Moving from Analogue PBX to digital VoIP?

I don't even know if this belongs here?. If not, do let me know. So we have an analogue Alkatel PABX system in our little office. We have extensions, direct lines and PBX lines. We are trying to move to a more digital/flexible way of handling the…
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How do I use ISDN debug on a Cisco router to troubleshoot PRI phone issues?

We have a Cisco 2811 with UCM E 7.0 running our phone system. It is connected to the PSTN by a VWIC2-1MFT-T1/E1 card connected to a PRI from the phone company. From time to time of late, we are experiencing fast-busy signals when trying to make…
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Diagnose Avaya IP Config to SMTP

We have 10 phone extensions that instead of gettings messages on the phone, we configured the Avaya IP Office to forward messages to a specific email for each extension. The SMTP server adress is specified in avaya settings and a local Windows…
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Testing quality of sustained call quality to a Public number

While migrating from an old Avaya to Skype for Business (on-prem), I have been asked a few questions about call duration and call quality during maintenance. Questions stem from unclear answers from the team that manages the firewalls about how it…
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