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The Ambidextrous Laptop: A Perfect Fit for Asterisk and VoIP

The Ambidextrous Laptop: A Perfect Fit for Asterisk and VoIP

Monday, April 10, 2023

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Until we bought a 15-inch Windows laptop with 20 gigs of RAM and a 1 terabyte NVMe SSD for under $500, we never would have considered such a computer an ideal virtual machine platform. And, to our surprise, with Windows 11 and a 4-core Ryzen 3 processor, it not only ran VirtualBox flawlessly, but Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg) also performed admirably.   And then we tried out the UTM virtual machine platform on one of Apple’s new MacBook… Read More ›

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Apple M1 and M2 Silicon

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Apple M1 and M2 Silicon

Monday, March 27, 2023

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In the old days, virtual machine choices were limited to VMware, Proxmox, and VirtualBox with the first two requiring a dedicated hardware platform before you ever got started. So it looked like VirtualBox solved the problem of being able to use existing hardware for other functions as well as being able to host virtual machines. And all was well in the Intel world until Apple created its M1 chip integrating the CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, I/O, and more into a… Read More ›

$1 a Month Buys a Cloud Powerhouse for Incredible PBX 2027

$1 a Month Buys a Cloud Powerhouse for Incredible PBX 2027

Monday, March 20, 2023

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We lied. Sorry. This cloud-based solution for Incredible PBX 2027 will set you back $12.98 a year which works out to just under $1.10 a month. If you’ve never used a cloud platform, now’s your chance at a truly unbelievable price. You can barely cover the electric bill for on-premise hardware at this price, and that’s before you buy the hardware. We cover a number of cloud-based solutions over the course of a year, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find… Read More ›

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Microsoft Windows 11

Deploying Incredible PBX 2027 with Microsoft Windows 11

Friday, March 3, 2023

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Miracles happen every so often, but we never expected our Linux-based Incredible PBX platform to be running natively on the Microsoft Windows 11 desktop. Some have asked why you’d even want to do this when VirtualBox is available for Windows, and Incredible PBX VirtualBox images are available for Debian 10 and Rocky 8. The short answer is we got kernel crashes on our cheapo Windows 11 hardware. The longer answer is the VirtualBox days are numbered as it won’t run… Read More ›

Faxing Returns for Incredible PBX 2027 Platforms

Faxing Returns for Incredible PBX 2027 Platforms

Saturday, February 25, 2023

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As you may know, the introduction of Rocky 8, Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04, and PHP 7.4 blew our HylaFax/AvantFax/IAXmodem faxing solution out of the water leaving all of the Incredible PBX 2027 builds with no fax capabilities. With some tips from our long-time contributor, Bill Simon, we are happy to report that an alternative solution is now available. It now provides BOTH incoming and outgoing fax support with email PDF delivery of all received faxes. While there are numerous free… Read More ›

2023 Mobile Telephony: Fresh, New Ways to Skin a Cat

2023 Mobile Telephony: Fresh, New Ways to Skin a Cat

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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We’ve covered many interesting mobile telephony solutions over the years including our most recent experience with Visible. But, as has been true with the Bell Sisters for decades, Verizon has continued to move the goal posts with Visible. The bottom line is the cost of Visible service is now virtually identical to the cost of Verizon. So today we’re putting on our creativity hat to consider some other options. For those in the United States that pay a monthly fee… Read More ›

Raspberry Pi Killer: The $99 Beelink T4 Pro

Raspberry Pi Killer: The $99 Beelink T4 Pro

Monday, February 6, 2023

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For those that are new to the VoIP community, we feel your pain. What was once an easily attainable and affordable hardware solution with the Raspberry Pi is now a knuckle drill due to supply chain issues. And we appreciate that not everyone is ready to make the leap to the Cloud even though $25 a year is difficult to pass up. So today we’ll share our recent discovery of a hardware platform for your home or office that’s about… Read More ›

Happy New Year: It’s Incredible PBX 2027 for the Raspberry Pi

Happy New Year: It’s Incredible PBX 2027 for the Raspberry Pi

Monday, January 23, 2023

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Ever since Eben and Liz Upton first introduced the Raspberry Pi to our Charleston community over a decade ago, the primary focus of their development team has been to encourage people of the world to learn about computers on an affordable platform. To this day, the Raspberry Pi 4B can still be purchased (if you can find one) for $35. Unfortunately, supply chain issues have taken their toll. If you prefer not to pay a premium for the Raspberry Pi… Read More ›

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