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While it's, among other things, big in Japan, IPv6 hasn't precisely taken over in the U.S. yet. But IPv6 has serious benefits for SIP, so we've made it a priority at Junction Networks to begin making our network and systems IPv6 ready.

Would it be useful to record some of your more important phone calls to review later? Polycom offers a tool to do that with their Polycom Productivity Suite, which is an additional feature set available as an additional purchase.

So, you've got this fancy Polycom IP phone and you're wondering how you can make it do some super cool Internety stuff, aren't you?

How about a tiny web page on your phone? It could list your business addresses or the company's main fax line or anything that would be useful to have at your fingertips for quick reference. Polycom lets you do this. But what if you don't want to host a web server yourself?

Please be advised that Junction Networks will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 10th from 11:00 P.M. EST - Sunday, April 11th 03:00 A.M. EST. The impact on customers should be minimal, but there may be brief outages that will affect services.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Please be advised that Junction Networks will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Sunday, February 14th from 12:00 A.M. EST - 04:00 A.M. EST. During this period, there will be brief outages that will affect all services.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Junction Networks lab is pleased to announce that we have reviewed the Stromberg Carlson Candlestick and have added it to our list of certified phones. Our configuration guide can be found here.

This is not specific to VoIP, but it is nonetheless really cool. The Technology Review reports that a zero-emissions city is being built in Abu Dhabi, partially just to see if it can be done.

Okay, not really, but Tina Gasperson is claiming at LinuxPlanet (with her tongue firmly in cheek) that Open Source software saves the lives of cows, since it can be developed at home. You see, you'll buy fewer shoes.

Yesterday, Wired carried a report of several prominent Twitter accounts getting hacked. The first problem with Twitter's security is that they weren't throttling invalid password attempts on their accounts, so it was just a matter of time and poor passwords before a malicious party got in. Unfortunately for Twitter, the hacked account was a staffer with the ability to change the password on every user account. Barack Obama, Britney Spears and Fox News were compromised, along with quite a few others.

I was over on Freeswitch's website this morning and noticed a link to a list of 104 Cisco and Avaya alternatives for IP PBXes. I thought it was an interesting list. Even though it does not seek to evaluate the IP PBXes, it is pretty astounding to note just how many options are out there. The Asterisk team should be particularly proud, given how many names on the list are Asterisk derivatives.