Category Archives: Sonus

Faster Sonus/Ribbon Log File Analysis with PowerShell

Have you ever written a cool tool, put it up on GitHub and then totally forgotten to tell everyone about it? Well, I wrote a call Sonus/Ribbon PowerShell log parser and forgot to tell everyone. And it’s super embarrassing! Why? I got so sick and tired of firing up Ribbons on “LX” tool every single… Read More »

Solving Pesky TLS Issues on Old Hardware

Part of being a Skype and Teams administrator is trying to reconfigure legacy hardware that’s been left in a corner for 5+ years and never updated. Problem is, the world has moved on since these devices were deployed and depending on what firmware they were running when they were deployed. They likely won’t talk with… Read More »

Enhance Your Existing Sonus/Ribbon SBC’s With Teams Direct Routing Using A Secondary Certificate

Imagine this, you’re in the middle of a pandemic, your entire state is in lockdown, everyone is working from home and your Skype infrastructure was never designed to facilitate 100% of users working externally. Now due to the platform struggling, your boss has just told you to move your businesses calling to Teams NOW with… Read More »

Extension based SBC routing for non-DID numbers? You bet!

As you may have guessed by some of my recent posts, I have a client that is in the middle of a large cross-forest migration of their Skype4B environment. The issue As part of their requirements to cut users over, users will be getting new SIP addresses and are being cutover “step by step” instead… Read More »

Emergency Services Notifications and Handling for Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

So after a recent thread over on Twitter discussing the legalities of the E911 laws in the states (I’m an Australian) as well as the fact that Enterprise Voice is now easy enough to deploy that its getting deployed by Office365 administrators without traditional telephony experience. I figured I’d take a few minutes to publish… Read More »

Forwarding Original Caller ID with Skype4B and Telstra SIP

So I recently had a customer request that they have an on call mobile display the number of the calling party when a line was diverted outside of business hours. Luckily they were using a standard client to do the call forwarding and not a response group, so it was simple to redirect the call… Read More »