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The Microsoft-Metaswitch acquisition had been long in the making. What's behind it? And what does it bode for today's Metaswitch operators?

Thinking of your deployment as "small" can lead to all kinds of unwise security decisions. The idea that you can manually configure things to perfection often leads to production deployments that are unsecured, unmanageable, and subject to cyber attack.

The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking gives helpful insight for Service Providers fighting robocalling and implementing SHAKEN/STIR.

How ECG maximizes effectiveness with a widely distributed workforce in a mixture of office and home environments.

At the Cloud Communications Alliance (CCA) Summit in Miami, opinions are strong about the critical features of SD-WAN and its importance for reliable voice and video.

Enterprise Connect 2019 focused on Small-room video systems and Cloud-hosted Contact Center platforms, with lots of other small bits in the orbit.

Cisco's support site now aggressively warns BroadWorks operators when patches are missing.

Release-independent BroadWorks Resource Servers In 2017, Cisco-BroadSoft announced that the Resource Servers on the BroadWorks platform would no longer follow the traditional release upgrade and patching model employed in the past. Instead, they would be upgraded as release-independent versions. Bug fixes, new features, and updates to components of server software are now included in these v...

Seven basic facts about the laws, the logic, and the technical implementation of STIR/SHAKEN to fight robocalling.

New training specials from ECG lock in savings and give you the maximum flexibility for 2019.

To provide reliable SIP failover -- do it slowly.

MIAMI, FLORIDA - BroadSoft Connections 2018 - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has now allowed ECG to publish information about the long-term relationship in which ECG, Inc. has been proudly supporting Federal law enforcement since 2007. This partnership is one of ECG's proudest contributions to reliable communications for critical, life-saving goals. The US DOJ approved release of the info...

Original Release Date: September 19, 2018. Updated 18:19 UTC Systems Affected SIP Service Providers and Enterprises Background & Description SIP based Enterprises and Service Providers (SIP Operators) that provide SIP UA configuration files (such as for Cisco, Polycom, Yealink, Mitel devices), but which do not authenticate those downloads effectively, are vulnerable to attack by...

Many BroadWorks service providers are migrating to new data centers and cloud hosting providers. This change brings many aspects into consideration, such as Rollback recovery options Managing BroadWorks Configurations Choosing Operating System versions To look more into the migration, Mark Lindsey spoke with ECG AMTS Ashley Lee for a Q&A. Ashley is an ECG Associate Member of Technical Sta...

Network Outages are going to happen. The marketing department talks about Zero Outages -- and that's a great goal to have. But as the pragmatic engineering and operations team, you can prepare for outages to prevent them and to remediate instantly. Skip the Pretend Redundancy Detect and Triage Faults PCAP: Packet capture Ready for Remote Testing Logging Enabled & Synchronized Prepare the h...