Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Fascinating
Comp Sci at Columbia has invested countless hours of time and a ton of effort into getting a VOIP phone system that approaches the features of the analog system, but doesn't work as well.
Awesome.
Members of CS department:
We will roll out the new 3COM VoIP phone system from next Monday
9/19/2005
to Thursday 9/22/2005 to replace the current VoIP system.
1. Attached is the schedule of VoIP (not analog) phone numbers that will
be moved to 3COM system.
IF YOU ARE IN CEPSR, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR
OFFICE ON THE SCHEDULED DAY TO MOVE YOUR PHONE TO THE NEW SYSTEM,
OTHERWISE YOUR PHONE WILL BE OUT OF ORDER. THE MOVE WILL BEGIN FROM
9AM-4PM EVERYDAY, UNTIL DONE.
2. This time we will only move your current VoIP phone from SipQuest to
3COM system. The analog phones will remain untouched until the next
conversion schedule on 10/10/05, when we move completely to VoIP (no
analog). At that time, your analog phone number will replace your
current
VoIP number.
3. The 3COM system is extremely nice and reliable. Please take advantage
of the features provide by 3COM system as much as possible. Below are a
few examples:
- Voice mail
when you have voice mail, you will receive a notification via
email. The email also has the attchament of the voice message.
You can listen to this message on your PC. However, the
message
will remain on your phone system, until you delete it.
- Call transfer
- 3 way conference
- Call forward
- Call forward ring no answer
this is my favorite feature. I use this feature to transfer
the calls from my desk phone to my cell phone after 3 rings
without answer.
- Switch Your Telephone to Do Not Disturb
You can find the complete instructions at:
www.cs.columbia.edu/~crf/ -> CS Phones
On behalf of the Computer Science department, I would like to thank Erik
Papir, Director of 3COM VoIP and members of his team, Tom Sammons
and Jeff Enters, for donating the entire system (hardware and software),
providing the deeply discounted maintenance contract, and for their time
to install the system into the CS network.
I also would like to thank members of Emergent, Santo J. Pittsman, Mike
Tedder and Stephen P. Tarzia for working side by side with us to test
the 3COm VoIP system.
Daisy
Awesome.
Members of CS department:
We will roll out the new 3COM VoIP phone system from next Monday
9/19/2005
to Thursday 9/22/2005 to replace the current VoIP system.
1. Attached is the schedule of VoIP (not analog) phone numbers that will
be moved to 3COM system.
IF YOU ARE IN CEPSR, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR
OFFICE ON THE SCHEDULED DAY TO MOVE YOUR PHONE TO THE NEW SYSTEM,
OTHERWISE YOUR PHONE WILL BE OUT OF ORDER. THE MOVE WILL BEGIN FROM
9AM-4PM EVERYDAY, UNTIL DONE.
2. This time we will only move your current VoIP phone from SipQuest to
3COM system. The analog phones will remain untouched until the next
conversion schedule on 10/10/05, when we move completely to VoIP (no
analog). At that time, your analog phone number will replace your
current
VoIP number.
3. The 3COM system is extremely nice and reliable. Please take advantage
of the features provide by 3COM system as much as possible. Below are a
few examples:
- Voice mail
when you have voice mail, you will receive a notification via
email. The email also has the attchament of the voice message.
You can listen to this message on your PC. However, the
message
will remain on your phone system, until you delete it.
- Call transfer
- 3 way conference
- Call forward
- Call forward ring no answer
this is my favorite feature. I use this feature to transfer
the calls from my desk phone to my cell phone after 3 rings
without answer.
- Switch Your Telephone to Do Not Disturb
You can find the complete instructions at:
www.cs.columbia.edu/~crf/ -> CS Phones
On behalf of the Computer Science department, I would like to thank Erik
Papir, Director of 3COM VoIP and members of his team, Tom Sammons
and Jeff Enters, for donating the entire system (hardware and software),
providing the deeply discounted maintenance contract, and for their time
to install the system into the CS network.
I also would like to thank members of Emergent, Santo J. Pittsman, Mike
Tedder and Stephen P. Tarzia for working side by side with us to test
the 3COm VoIP system.
Daisy
