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November 8, 2007 by admin.
Check this website if you have an iphone - they have made hacking this thing as easy as opening a url (website).HacktheiPhone.com
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November 8, 2007 by admin.
I have also recently been looking at different servers for email. As we have servers and a lot of internet bandwidth i feel it is stupid to use a “hosted solution” for internet email and website service. I decided to use linux boxes for all our servers, i am fairly new to Linux but after working with it for over a year now I do not regret the decision… Especially for our business model. I tested the following packages:
After installing configuring and trying to setup each package i found that the Zimbra “open source” package was by far the simplest and easiest to setup and use. Really it took only about an hour after installation to be sending and receiving, remotely as i have a remote office from the servers, email calendering and mobile messaging. Including all services running on SSL certificate based connections.I highly recommend this product - Zimbra.
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November 8, 2007 by admin.
I have been evaluating on some management tools for the VoIP Telco service provider. This is what i have found:
There is a company called ManageEngine http://manageengine.adventnet.com/ they have some great products that are easy to setup and use. I am using the syslog and netflow Analyzers. With these products and properly setup Cisco routers and switches, i can get an instant picture of my network with really all the tools to check that things are running properly. The Netflow Analyzer shows bandwidth usage, protocol usage, QoS Mapping, and top talkers. With this product you can get a clear picture of who is connecting to your network and what they are doing.
The Syslog tool is great, i am using it to gather events from the Linux Servers and our routers around the world. I am basically looking at ACL violations and for port status change. It also works well and it is easy to instal in a RedHat EL 5.0 and 4.0 Server.
I was able to install and have both systems collecting information in a few hours.
I am also using MRTG to monitor our Cat6500 and our 7600’s, this was a little tricky to get going in Linux compared to the windows version but once i had the basic understanding of how to do it - it was very simple. MRTG is also a very powerful information gathering tool to help understand what is actually happening inside your network.
I am running the 3 services on one server with Redhat 5.0 server virtualization is a new feature, It looks like a wonderful tool i just am not quite ready to start that now…
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October 29, 2007 by admin.
Ok Nextone has applied the latest “Next-Patch” and we have not had a core in a week. It looks like version 4.3 is coming together. If not for the errors, which Nextone is really working very hard to resolve all issues, the product with all its features is something really special and there is nothing on the market in a comparable price range to compete.
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October 22, 2007 by admin.
They should re-name the MSx to the “Next-core” server or maybe they have partnered with Apple with an old version - The Apple “Core”. The servers are coring daily…
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September 12, 2007 by admin.
Well i’m making calls on my iPhone with carrier CelTel in Honduras Central America and it works great. Adios AT&T. No hardware hack all software thanks to the folks at the iPhone Dev WiKi.
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September 12, 2007 by admin.
I have been in sales for 15 years now last 10 or so selling Cisco in Central America and after Millions of dollars in sales i have learned a few things. Some of my biggest sales and long term friendships have come from customers that have purchased something a system or a large network and had problems with the technology. If as a sales engineer i get that customer through the difficult times and make their network really work really shine for their business i have something much more then my commission and our company has something much more then a sale, we have their trust. I learned form the onset in sales, sell to the decision maker/owner. But my goal is always to have the trust and confidence of the business owner. The way i’ve been able to achieve that is make it work. I sold, at one point, the largest IP Telephony network in Central America to a company. They had like 22 factories and thousands of employees. The company was run by the owner’s son’s and they managed various factories. One day i got a call from the owner (he was like in his early 70’s and not very big on technology) he was yelling at me about the network and how it did not work, you can imagine.. I caught the first flight i could to meet with him later that afternoon. In the meeting he was showing me how his fancy IP phone was crap. As he would dial he lifted his hand about a foot away from the phone and slammed his finger down, then he would say, “see the damn thing doesn’t work”. I could see right away what the problem was, so i want to Radio Shack a got one of those phones with big buttons and connected it to an ATA. He was happy…. We have continued to do business for years.
My point is work with your customers and your customer is really yours.
I have yet to speak to someone in Nextone management about all the problems we have been facing because of their flawed software, maybe we are not the biggest customer but we will have six thousand ports by the end of 2007 and doing close to 100 million min. monthly. I can’t understand anyone in sales/management that would pass up that opportunity it’s almost a crime.
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September 12, 2007 by admin.
With regard to Nextone’s latest release 4.3:
Let’s start with some of the good points:
The Nextone 4.3 RSM is a world apart with its intended capabilities from 4.0. We have the ability to stream rated cdr’s (i can choose what rating fields and where to put them) to a wide selection of databases. This gives us the ability to use a much less sophisticated and costly billing solution. It can even stream to a flat file. The RSM can check routing and really call flow for errors and correct them. Routes without rates, dead routes and so on. It has a full business reporting module for route profit analysis. Full alarming module that let’s me create custom actions for custom events along with a slew of pre-defined events pertinent to our business. I am sure the Nextone sales team has explained all the benefits.
We have the LCR module and its core are 7 files.
First file is Periods where we define routing and billing periods. We are using a 24 hour 7 day a week period but that could be broken down to different periods to maximize profit. Regions where i define our Country Codes and Dial codes for each region and define a “name” for that region. So if there are 200 codes for Honduras i break that down to HONDO-FIXED, HONDO-MEGATEL, HONDO-CELTEL and HONDO-CLEC. This makes it simpler to define routing. There is an ANI file that can be placed in the system to do ANI routing. Then there are the 4 core files we work with daily Customer rates, Customer routes, Supplier Rates and Supplier Routes. For us those files are not that difficult to manipulate because we are only focusing on about 10 to 15 routes besides Honduras and the Philippines. Each file is only 2 to 300 rows and less then 10 or so columns. Once the data is in the system they have a basic web based management tool. You will need to review it to see if it fits your needs i really do not think it would. Which means you would need another database to just manage those files. You also would need to see how long it would take to update routing.
Things that are not functioning:
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August 5, 2007 by admin.
So we have the new version Beta of OS X 10.5 Leopard and is - great! All the new features on the Apple web site are included. I have to say that Apple has the coolest products available - anywhere. From the Macbook and the Macpro’s to the new Airport to the iPhone. State of the art products all, and when Apple releases Leopard later this year it too will kick ass.
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