I think nearly anyone that has seen the Algo audio alerting devices has wondered what a group of them would sound like when they are positioned together.
Recently here at ProVu we got to group 38 Algo devices together and set them up to listen on multicast.
We were impressed with the kit and the result, the audio setting was left untouched so they are set to the default (I think it is 4 and goes up to 10) so they can become louder if required.
What do you think?
Check out the video below.
Did you know 2N regularly hold free online webinars and training courses giving you opportunities to extend your knowledge about 2N products. They have a variety of topics designed for 2N resellers’ technical and sales staff.
Topics include:
2N Products Overview (Technical)
2N Access Control (Technical)
2N Access Control (Sales)
2N Helis IP Verso (Sales)
2N IP Audio (Technical)
2N IP Intercoms Basic (Technical)
2N IP Intercoms Advanced (Technical)
View list of courses and register: 2N Training and Webinars
Are you interested in learning more about the CounterPath Bria Stretto range of softphone licenses? Join us on Wednesday 27th July at 11:00 AM (GMT+1) when we will be hosting our Benefits of CounterPath Bria Stretto Webinar. The webinar has been designed to be suitable for all; you do not require any prior understanding of the range.
Joining us for the webinar will be Dave Watkin and Matt Rogers from CounterPath. We expect the webinar to last approximately 45 minutes, to join us simply register your details below.
We currently have two great Gigaset promotional offers available for our resellers. These offers will continue to run until the end of September 2016, they include:
Buy 3 x Gigaset PRO Handsets & get a free N510IP PRO Base Station
To receive your free N510IP PRO Base station simply place your order using one of the following partcodes:
Buy 4 x Gigaset N720 IP DECT Base Stations & get a free N720 DM PRO
To take advantage of this bundle you will need to contact the ProVu sales team on 01484 840048 or you can email: contact@provu.co.uk.
These promotions are available to all ProVu registered trade resellers. If you are an ITSP, telecoms reseller or security installer and would like to become a ProVu reseller please fill out our new reseller form.
Securing voice traffic in a hosted telephony environment is a core requirement for any business to survive. Consequently it’s important that IP communication is managed and secured properly. Many hosted telephony providers from around the world deal with 100’s of products from different manufacturers, however without interop testing and secure networks, device compatibility can be hard to assess. With Sangoma’s E-SBCs, device interoperability can be simplified as it offers a secure enhancement to hosted VoIP deployments, acting as a medium between devices.
Here’s some of the key features of Sangoma’s SBCs:
Ultimately Sangoma’s E-SBCs allow service providers to take advantage of all IP communications
offerings, without compromising security, service quality, reliability and/or availability.
Sangoma offer a range of Enterprise SBCs with support for 5 up to 250 sessions and their carrier
models can handle up to total of 4000 sessions.
Find out more: Vega SMB SBC Appliance use cases
View Sangoma’s series: SBC Appliances
There’s just over 2 weeks to go before the entry deadline for the 2016 Comms National Awards and our entry is beginning to take shape. With a number of awards targeted at resellers and Service Providers, we wanted to share with you some of the categories up for grabs and the benefits of entering the awards.
To enter, simply register and download the application form from the CNA website, the deadline for entries is 29th July.
Top Tip: Nigel Sergent, Editorial Director at Comms Dealer is always happy to help with any entry enquiries, any questions can be directed to him at: nsergent@bpl-business.com
The Comms National Awards are prestigious awards and having been shortlisted for the past 2 years, we would encourage you to get involved – who knows you could be named champions at the ceremony which will take place on 13th October at the Hilton on Park Lane, London.
We look forward to seeing you on the night and raising a glass to your success!
The ProVu Team.
We have received notice from Snom that the Snom 320 will be going ‘end of life’. From our current stock levels, we predict that our stock will last until mid August 2016. Please note; this is only a prediction and our ability to supply this model is ultimately dependent upon the orders we receive. Once our stock has run out we will be unable to replenish it.
Up to date stock availability can be seen on ProSys.
We have had an enquiry come in about how to wire in a tamper switch without an I/O module or a Wiegand module. I must admit I thought this was strange at first, given that I always thought it was fairly simple to do. It turns out it is but it is also easy to overcomplicate.
Make no mistake that 2N’s ideal setup would be a tamper switch connected to either an I/O module or a Wiegand module – every single piece of documentation I have found shows it connected in this manner. The idea is that it has 2 switches – we’ll call them switch 1 and 2 – with switch 2 connecting to the I/O module and back into the Verso, where it is recognised as a tamper switch, and switch 1 connecting to, for example, a 3rd-party alarm system, where it is recognised as a generic input that activates whatever the alarm system is programmed to activate.
The Verso however has its own generic input, into which you can wire switch 1 and have it behave as exactly that – a generic input.
Please note: in order to make use of a tamper switch in any way, you must have at least the Enhanced Integration Licence.
What you will need:
The tamper switch then needs wiring in via that little green terminal block on the left:
As mentioned earlier, because of the way it’s wired in, the Verso doesn’t know it is communicating with its own tamper switch, so the below is what you’ll see in the web interface when you try and program it as a tamper switch:
To run a quick demo of it working, I told the Verso that its Secured State Control was controlled by the status of input 1 – all this does short of any programming is activate a red LED next to the camera in the shape of a padlock – without the Enhanced Integration Licence this is all it will be able to do.
By using a screwdriver to press and depress the tamper switch, I was then able to turn the red LED on and off.
Please note: If you are using a tamper switch in this way you will not be able to wire anything else, such as an exit button, into the same input on the Verso. The only way to use an exit button without buying an I/O module will be to buy a security relay.
I have just accidentally discovered a very strange bug (or feature?) on a snom phone.
It affects 8.7.5.35 firmware and possibly others. When tested on firmware 8.7.5.13 this doesn’t occur.
If you set up a SIP account, any SIP account (doesn’t even have to be a real working one) and the SIP password contains the word “monkey”, you get the following error message and the account will not work:
I have informed Snom about this. I’ve never had a customer reporting this problem, it is just funny.
It is sometimes necessary to perform more advanced debugging on Sangoma Vega’s.
The process is documented here:
I faced a strange problem when trying to SSH onto the Vega from my Debian desktop… the connection sat there and just timed out. I could telnet to the port and was prompted with SSH-2.0-Mocana SSH but nothing was happening with SSH.
I did some digging and found that there was an incompatibility with the algorithms in use in the default configuration.
You can get around this by specifying the following SSH options:
ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa,ssh-dss -o KexAlgorithms=diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 -o Ciphers=aes128-cbc,3des-cbc -o MACs=hmac-md5,hmac-sha1 root@hostname -p2022
Hopefully, this will serve as a reminder to me in future. If someone else finds this useful then all the better!