I hear often that it is hard to practice/demo voice related configurations with GNS3. This is only partially true.
It is correct that GNS3 cannot substitute Multiservice routers like 28xx etc because the DSP resources cannot be emulated. For using T1/E1 or FXS/FXO connections you need the real hardware interfaces and of course another PBX/router interface to connect your T1 to. If you have a double T1 you could use a T1 x-over to let the router do both ends.
For all other configurations like Dial-peers, translation patterns, SIP-UA configurations, CME, ephone registrations, CUBE etc, GNS3 can do the job. Just an example…
Cisco Systems
GNS3 (dynamips) and Voice-Labs
Business
Scrappage scheme extension could increase demand for car loans
Carmakers have called for governments across Europe to extend the car scrappage schemes that have helped to increase new car sales, according to the BBC.A number of major economies introduced scrappage schemes as an incentive for motorists to replace their old vehicles with brand-new ones, boosting sales for the struggling industry. But car manufacturers are concerned that when these schemes come to an end, sales could fall once again.An extension to the scheme would also give an extra boost to the car finance industry, which helps many people buy the new cars they may otherwise be unable to afford.A car…
Business
Magna sees Opel paying back state loans by 2015
FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Magna will cut about 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe, the bulk in Germany, as it acts to return the carmaker to profit and pay back 4.5 billion euros ($6.55 billion) in state aid, its co-chief executive said. The Canadian auto parts supplier aims to sign a deal with former Opel parent General Motors within two weeks to buy a 55 percent stake together with Russian partner Sberbank, Siegfried Wolf said on Monday. “By 2015 we want to pay back the government-guaranteed loans. Opel will be profitable before that, however,” Wolf told a news conference. Around 4,000…
Business
Reliance says new plant running at about full rate
GADIMOGA, India (Reuters) – Reliance Industries’ new 580,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in Gujarat is operating at close to full capacity, Executive Director P.M.S. Prasad said. The new plant, next to its old 660,000 bpd refinery, has turned Jamnagar into the world’s largest refining complex, processing 1.24 million bpd. “We have commissioned all the units and it is operating at almost full capacity,” Prasad, who heads Reliance’s upstream and refinery business, told Reuters on Saturday. Last month Reliance started an 85,000 bpd alkylation unit, the only unit remaining to be started up at the new plant, with the aim of…
Business
Retail majors bet big on business intelligence
Branded retail giants in the Rs 40,000-crore organised retail sector are betting big on adopting business intelligence (BI) software as a service (SAAS) model on monthly rent basis. With the move, the retailers plan to discontinue expensive software licences such as SAP, Oracle and Business Object. This is to counter a major challenge on how to save the time and cost in implementing BI solutions as a cost-effective measure, according to retailers and industry experts. Sunil Mehta, chief executive officer, Next Retail India Ltd from the belt of Videocon Industries Ltd (VIDEOIND.NS : 233.75 -2.4) said , “We first need…
Business
Screen Printing
Screen printing is a technique in which the ink is directly applied to the surface that is to be printed and this surface is called substrate. The image that is to be printed is transferred photographically to the screen in such a way that the areas not be printed is blocked and the fabric is used as a stencil. A roller moves across the screen stencil, pumping ink over the threads of the woven net in the open areas.
Silk screening or serigraphy also involves screen printing. In this, the stencil method of the print making imposes a design on…
Facebook
Despite Passing On iLike, Facebook Appears Still Interested In Music
Just last week we wrote about the MySpace acquisition of iLike and this week it appears that some form of agreement between Facebook and Spotify is in the works according to Techcrunch. The rumor is based on a status update by Mark Zuckerberg in which he simply stated “Spotify is so good.” While Mark may be a victim to the classic “shiny object syndrome” found in much of Silicon Valley, he probably wouldn’t have written the update had something not been in the works.
Whether or not discussions or near the final stages, Spotify is most definitely an interesting product…
Hack
Adafruit releases new TV-B-Gone kit
Recently, our friends over at Adafruit released a new version of their popular TV-B-Gone kit. Built in cooperation with [Mitch Altman], the inventor of the TV-B-Gone, the new kit sports four high power IR LEDs, two wide beam and two narrow beam. The four LEDs give the new TV-B-Gone increased range, with a maximum distance of over 150ft. One of the most impressive features of the kit is the fact that the new TV-B-Gone is universal and can now work in Europe and Asia in addition to the US. Users are able to select which region they want to…
Computer
Lenovo
Lenovo Posts Third Loss as U.S., Europe Demand Slows (Update1)
By Mark Lee
Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) – Lenovo computers manufacturer, Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest personal-computer maker, reported a third straight quarterly loss because of a slump in U.S. and European demand, and said the operating environment “will continue to be challenging.”
The net loss in the fiscal first quarter ended June 30 was $16 million, compared with a $110.5 million profit a year earlier, Lenovo said today. The loss was less than the $54 million median of five analysts’ estimates in a Bloomberg survey after the company cut most…
Automotive
Motorcycle Protective clothing That works!
There is some great looking motorcycle clothing on the marketthese days, but believe me not all of the motorcycle clothingoffers as much protection as you think. In Europe, formotorcycle clothing to be lawfully sold as ’safety clothing, ithas to pass a series of European standards, which are prettylengthy but are available on my website. The standards cover theclothing’s performance in abrasion, tearing and impact tests,and when they have passed; they are sold with the CE mark.However, no such regulation is available in the USA, so whatshould you look for?Protection in the right places’Not many people realise that most motorcycle injuries…
Tech Support
Bredolab Massively Infects Machines Through PDF And SWF Files
ESET have issued a press release concerning Win32/TrojanDownloader.Bredolab.AA, which made the top ten threat listing in June ThreatSense.Net® report.
The Bredolab trojan is the top-scoring threat in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but also scoring high in other European countries. It appears in the Top 5 list of threats in Austria, Poland, Turkey; in the Top 10 in Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, Russia and Germany; in the Top 20 in the Ukraine and Italy, and in the Top 40 in France. In Ireland it has climbed from 40th place into the Top 15.
This is a class…
Tech Support
HTC Smartphones Vulnerable
If you own a mobile phone made by HTC and connect using Bluetooth, there’s a decent chance security researcher Alberto Moreno Tablado can rummage through sensitive files stored on the device using a critical bug in some of its wireless device features.
The directory traversal flaw resides in the File Transfer Profile (OBEX FTP) service that’s built in to the Bluetooth stack implemented by HTC, Tablado writes here. It allows an attacker to move from a phone’s Bluetooth shared folder into other folders and affects HTC handsets running versions 6 and 6.1 of the Microsoft Mobile operating system.
“Microsoft…
