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	Thursday, March 30, 2006

SIP to the Rescue - Tales from GCI's Australian Outpost Andrew, an ace GCI developer is an aussie who is currently back home in Melbourne. The telecommunications and time zone challenges when trying to sync up between Melbourne and Anchorage are daunting. However, as Andrew stated, "SIP to the rescue!" Here's his tale: Problem: My wife has a hard time being able to call her family back in the US. Seattle is currently 5 hours ahead of Melbourne, so by the time she comes home from work each night it's usually too late to call. With daylight savings starting in the US this weekend and also ending here, that will become 7 hours. She can't call from work during the day or on her cell as the rates are sooo pricey. Solution: I have configured my Sipura 3000 (aka same hardware as PhoneGnome) to pick up incoming calls on the PSTN after 25 seconds. I have the bridging function working, so that if you enter the appropriate PIN, it connects US dial tone. Then it's just a matter of dialing the US number....kinda similar to a calling card service I guess. So now Annie can call our house on her lunch break, and wait for the ATA to pick up. Once it does, she just enters her PIN and gets connected to our US 'unlimited nation wide' SIP service. Clever huh? :-) The ATA bridges the PSTN and (potentially multiple) VoIP services, all in such a tiny physical package. ta da!!!!! 5:16:54 PM    comment []

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