CommuniGate Systems has received an award for IMS leadership.

Congratulations! You have been selected as a winner of the 2007 IMS
Leadership Award from IMS Magazine!

http://news.tmcnet.com/news/2007/04/12/2504520.htm

The official winners can also be found in the April issue of IMS
Magazine and featured online at http://www.tmcnet.com/ims/ .

This news has been posted on the accolades page of the CommuniGate Systems website.

I have finally succeeded at configuring my Nokia N80 mobile phone to register with CommuniGate Pro. It is nice to walk into any place I have WiFi access and bring my CommuniGate Pro PBX extension with me. I then always have the option of using wither my mobile or cellular line or the office line to place calls. The Phone's Internet Call features work great with CommuniGate. I will explain step by step how I finally got this to work. If you decide to do this, please do this at your own risk. I cannot guarantee that firmware will not brick your phone or that you will not be a victim of fraud on eBay.

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2. First get a Nokia N80. Places like craigslist and eBay have them for sale and prices are dropping since the Nokia N95 has been released.
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4. Get your N80 Flashed with the Internet Edition version of the Firmware if it does not have it already. A reliable service for me was iUnlock.
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6. Configure a WiFi Access Point or multiple WiFi Access points on your phone
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8. Configure your phone to use your CommuniGate Pro account for SIP
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The version of the phone's firmware that works for me is V 4.0632.0.38 13-10-2006 RM-92 Nokia N80 (01).

Here are some screen shots of the configuration screens.

To configure the phone begin by navigating your Applications button to Tools -> Settings -> Connection



When you arrive at the Connection Screen you should Configure a valid IP Access Point. I configured a WIFI access point for SIP.



Once you have a valid Access Point configured and tested, you can enter SIP Settings and add a new SIP profile.



Name your Profile as you please and note the settings I have selected in the following screen images. Set your SIP address URL as the Public user name and decide if you want the phone to always register or register only when needed. If you select 'When Needed' then you will only be able to make SIP calls and not receive them. With always on inbound SIP signals arrive at your mobile phone. I do not use a Proxy server as the Registrar server is my proxy and handles all of the NAT traversal and SBC features I need. Therefore I only configured the Registrar server.



My Registrar server settings are:



After Configuring these settings I click back and wait a few moments as the phone brings up the WiFi connection and then the SIP registration. If you are successful, you will be rewarded with a registered message under your profile name:



Before Calling with SIP I must configure the Internet tel. Settings from the Connections configuration page only to make my SIP profile the default Internet Telephone service.




When the Phone is successfully Registered with your SIP account you will see a small icon under the battery charge indicator bar which resembles a phone handset over the an icon of the Earth.



To call our PBX I dialed 200 and selected Options -> Internet Call. This placed the call with excellent audio quality and a different phone handset+globe icon while the call is active.



I then received a SIP call from another User (who had Caller ID off) on the company PBX and another who had their caller ID configured:



Then a PSTN caller called through our T1 Gateway to the CommuniGate Pro PBX:



CommuniGate Pro will show the phone's registration under the accounts Status page:

Registered Devices

Application	Expires	Network Address
PolycomSoundPointIP-SPIP_501-UA/2.1.0.2708	7:46:10PM	sip:ab@x.x.x.x
Nokia RM-92 V 4.0632.0.38	7:18:53PM	sip:ab@x.x.x.x;transport=UDP

A friend shared this mention of CommuniGate in Polycom's press coverage.

Polycom Rounds Out its Product Portfolio: SIP Phones, Mobility, Real-Time Conferencing

The Soundpoint IP 330 test unit we received is performing well.

I have neglected the Trackback features of this blog for too long. Several others have written about CommuniGate on their blogs and I have a list of those articles to share.

GigaOM - Giving SIP a Big Boost
The Voxilla SoapVOX - Nokia and Mobile Nirvana
VoIP Blog - Tehrani.com - IMS Awards
OS Community - Training SpamCatcher
VOIP IP Telephony - iPOD shuffles IP PBX to a Mac Mini (CommuniGate and Voxilla mentioned at bottom)
VoIP Watch - MacMini as an IP PBX
All About CommuniGate
CommuniGate Pro with XSAN 1.4

Please take a few moments to view the Pronto Flash Demo. It is only about 2 minutes and it provides a good overview of our advanced Web/Flash client. The Pronto beta ships with the most recent versions of CommuniGate Pro. I use this light client and it is nice to see my favorite photos, FLV videos, mp3 and other media in the same place I can read Mail, manage my schedule, RSS feeds and have Instant Messaging conversations. When you tire of watching the self running demo, you can actually try it by Installing CommuniGate Pro.

I was very impressed with what our team put together for the Spring Voice On Network (VON) show. The booth design was excellent and welcomed many visitors. Overall the expo was well attended by vendors, buyers, and journalists. Interest in CommuniGate was high, especially for Pronto, which now has the multimedia interface exposed for those evaluating our advanced flash client. I have included a slideshow for those who did not get a chance to visit the CommuniGate Systems booth at VON.

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