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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’ve been running Asterisk for years in our offices but just recently replaced an Asterisk Appliance* in our smaller office with an actual server, upgraded the server in hardware in our HQ location and upgrading both ends to 11.5.0 with Gareth’s patch for Cisco phones. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>99.99% of our endpoints are Cisco 7961Gs. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Each office is more-or-less standalone for ease of management and fault tolerance but we have a unified dialplan and SIP “trunking” from site to site via our VPN. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Everything presence related works wonderfully for local users, but I’m hoping there’s a way we could get presence for the people “at the other end of the pipe” fairly transparently. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We have a lot of cross-office collaboration, and our office manager/receptionist (who has the battleship of a 7961G+7914+7914 BLF) would love to “at a glance” know if the remote folks are available for a call or not. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m sure this has been covered, but my Googlefu us turning up a ton of redundant, old, and deprecated information so I’ve resorted to asking here. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From what I have found it sounds like it may be “easier” with IAX2 but my experiments with IAX2 haven’t yielded wonderful results and management prefers “SIP everywhere” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If anyone has any pointers I’d greatly appreciate it – thanks in advance! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lincoln<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>*- One of the worst IT decisions I’ve made for better or worse. Looked good on paper; in practice not a good idea for anything beyond a very simple SOHO. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lincoln King-Cliby, CTS, DMC-D, CCMP-S<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Commercial Market Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sr. Systems Architect | Crestron Certified Master Programmer (Silver) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>V: 440.449.1100 x1107 F: 440-449-1106 I: <a href="http://www.controlworks.com/">http://www.controlworks.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Crestron Services Provider<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>