These days, the way to go if you are picking a new telephone system is a system based upon Asterisk, which is open-source software providing a PBX for SIP telephones service. If you have a legacy telephone system, it may make sense to retire the legacy system and to move to a SIP-based system. I will explain. Continue reading “Picking a phone system for the office”
What about the security of SIP (VOIP) communications?
Recently I blogged with a recommendation that readers migrate their $40 or $55 per month landlines to VOIP lines that cost as little as 85¢ per month. In response, alert reader and Portuguese and European patent attorney Luís Ferreira asked:
What about security? SIP communications are not normally encrypted?
His questions are good questions. Here are a few partial answers.
Continue reading “What about the security of SIP (VOIP) communications?”
Reducing the cost of four telephone lines from $160 per month to 85¢ per month
We reduced our firm’s $160 per month phone bill for four telephone lines to 85¢ per month. Continue reading “Reducing the cost of four telephone lines from $160 per month to 85¢ per month”
Picking a VOIP analog telephone adapter
Reluctant to migrate from PCT-SAFE to ePCT?
A colleague at a very well known patent firm asks this:
Some of our clients (a few very large, sophisticated patent clients) refuse to let us move from PCT-Safe to ePCT for their matters since they claim the ePCT servers are located outside the US and that, at a minimum, a foreign-filing license would first be required prior to filing. Do you have any related experiences with clients? If so, how did you address their concerns?
First let me offer a compliment to those companies. It is really good that they think about the FFL issue. A company (or a practitioner) that fails to pay attention to FFL issues can really run into trouble later. Continue reading “Reluctant to migrate from PCT-SAFE to ePCT?”