Refurbished Phone Exchange Blog

The Plantronics Calisto phone and headset system are a unique pairing for small office / home office (SOHO) type setups. The Calisto headset and phone are synchronized to each other and not through the base as the handset is to the call. The headset and phone are connected through Bluetooth. Plantronics Calisto headsets are run on the Bluetooth technology standard. This standard has been formalized as IEEE 802.15.1. This standard was designed to support the creation of personal area networks, or small networks that connect devices such as wireless speakers, microphones, headsets, and storage devices. The benefit of knowing your...

The Bizfon 680 is a popular small business phone system.  The Bizfon 680 was designed to be as simple as possible for users to set up and configure. The simplicity of the phone does come with some drawbacks, however. Many features that would otherwise be standard like multi-tenant configuration are absent from the Bizfon 680 to make it easy to program. Voice Vault Cards To address the shortcomings of their system, Bizfon released a set of add in cards for the Bizfon 680. These memory cards add additional 2 hours of voicemail greeting time or 4 hours. In addition, one...

Wireless Access Points (WAPs) are enterprise level gear often found in a business networking environment. Contrast this with the ubiquitous Wireless Router, found in everyone’s home. We often receive questions by customers wanting to know the difference between the two, and can they use a router as a WAP or vice versa? Wireless Access Points (WAP) Wireless Access Points are considered “dumb.” The WAP often will require a wireless access controller in order to effective use the data it receives and sends. Most often a layer 3 switch or router will handle this for you. For instance, the NetVanta 7100...

Have you ever wanted to connect a headset to your older Toshiba digital telephone? Most Toshiba phones do not come with a headset port that you can easily use. Instead, optional cards were sold for these phones that allowed a headset port to be installed. Toshiba HHEU and BHEU1A modules are add on cards designed for Toshiba’s DKT (Digital Key Telephones) series of telephones. These modules are required in order to use headsets with your Toshiba phones. They are installed into the phone by opening up the phone and attaching them to the motherboard. The BHEU1A or HHEU cable is...

When deploying, upgrading, or expanding existing network architecture, a network engineer must come to a decision, what network speed should I deploy? In the past, the choices would have been 10 Megabit or 100 Megabit, but as technology progresses the new standard today has become 100 Mb vs 1,000 Mb (commonly known as Gigabit). 10 Gigabit also exists, but is a much higher end standard that readers of this blog should not worry about. Between our choices of 100 Megabit and Gigabit, you will have to decide which is a better fit for your business. 100 Megabit is the older...