Signal to Noise

Jazinga, a startup from Toronto that offers a new breed of Asterisk/Freeswitch-based IP-PBX, has put a lot of muscle into the automatic phone provisioning features.  The idea is, if you have an IP phone on your Jazinga-powered LAN, you should literally have to “do nothing” to get it working.  So I decided to put this claim to the test with a pair of Jazinga-supplied Linksys SIP phones.

And, I was going to videotape the whole process so I could share the ups and downs with folks on YouTube. I plugged the Linksys phone into the LAN and went to get my camcorder.  But, by the time I got back with it, which was about 2 minutes, the phone was ALREADY RUNNING on the Jazinga system. So it went from out the factory box to being a working SIP peer on the Jazinga system, firmware config and all, in under two minutes, and the best part–I did NOTHING, just as Jazinga claimed. Heck, I didn’t even have to key the MAC address of the phone into the Jazinga box.

Those clever Canadians are pretty good at this VoIP stuff–they should keep it up!