Packnet Blog

Canterbury City Council has become one of the latest in the rapidly expanding list of employers to take advantage of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology as part of their business phone systems.

New figures released by the Office of Communications (Ofcom) show that the United Kingdom is failing to take advantage in Voice Over IP (VOIP) technology, despite a recent surge in the number of products available on the market.

There are 2 methods of transferring calls using the Snom 300 handsets – they are Blind Transfer and Attended Transfer. The choice of method depends on the level of control you would like to keep over the transfer process. This level of control is generally linked to how sure you are about the availability of the person you wish to transfer the call to.

Draytek have launched a new 4 port Gigabit switch router. The Draytek 2130 comes with the following features which we think are sure to make it a winner.

Broadband Router/Firewall for Cable-modem users or 3G
Compatible with VirginMedia™ (Telewest/NTL)
Up to 800Mb/s WAN Throughput – ideal for fibre services
4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
IPv6 & IPv4 Support
WiFi – 802.11n Wireless LAN
3G USB Modem compatible – use 3G instead of Ethernet WAN for Internet connectivity
Compatible with Orange, T-Mobile, Vodfone, O2, & 3
NAS Facility – Add a USB memory key for shared LAN storage/access
Wireless On/Off & WPS Buttons
WMM – WiFi multimedia
Dial-Out VPN Facilities

Well we have finally made it live. We’ve been working on this for the past few months and now its up and running. The new Packnet website is a more focused, more polished website with a real message about our VoIP product Metis and covering our Open Source Software Development side of the business.

Packnet have been developing our Hosted IP Telephony Solution for the past year. In this time we haven’t given the platform a name. That has now changed and we can say that ‘Metis’ has been launched. Why have we waited until now?

We have decided to change our business phone number. You can now get us on +44(0) 845 004 4994.

We’ve been around for a few years at Packnet but we’re probably not the best know company in Manchester………yet. So we’ve joined up with the excellent people at Business Consort in Wilmslow as gold members to get to meet more people and to raise our profile.

So this is the first post of 2009, and gives us an opportunity to talk about what we are up to in the first month of the new year. The Packnet VoIP portal is progressing and new functionality is due to come online at the end of January.

We had some reports recently that Google Webmaster Tools was reporting DNS issues with sitemaps and the ability to read you sitemap.xml or sitemap.gz.xml files. Upon investigation of this we couldn’t really find any good reason for this going on. We did find a link in the google webmaster help section which showed that the problem was not local and was happening all over.