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Hi All,

Quick one to say we've just signed our BT VoIP interconnect contract and paid up our setup fee. Now on to interop testing then hosting of our Ofcom number allocations!

Our new website will be up very soon for our VoIP ITSP - SureVoIP

Don't worry, that website will be very non-technical in most places unless necessary!

This would not have been possible without the power of Open Source software!

Thanks,

Gavin.

Just a quick one to mention the IP 193.85.18.72 is hitting a lot of IPs doing SSH bruteforcing.

Another quick update. We've just received notice of our first ever number allocations from Ofcom.

They are "Location Independent Electronic Comm Services" which are used for VoIP accounts and we have:

05600 51XXXX

Thanks,

Gavin.

Exciting news!

Our Communications Provider Identity ("CUPID") code application has been processed by Ofcom and we just received our number of 291.

The start of many good things to come with our own VoIP provider SureVoIP (brand and website being worked on now). We're also listed as an ITSP at ITSPA.

Thanks,

Gavin.

OpenLDAP 2.4.22 is now officially out. Download now and review the final changes list:

OpenLDAP 2.4.22 is now available for download as detailed on our download page:
http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

and should soon be available on all official mirrors:
ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/MIRRORS

This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use. Users of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade.

Significant contributors to this release include:
Howard Chu (Symas Corp)
Hallvard Furuseth (University of Oslo)
Quanah Gibson-Mount (Yahoo! Inc)
Ralf Haferkamp (SUSE Linux)
Pierangelo Masarati (Politecnico di Milano)
Rein Tollevik (Basefarm AS)

OpenLDAP 2.4.22 Release (2010/04/24)
Added slapd SLAP_SCHEMA_EXPOSE flag for hidden schema elements (ITS#6435)
Added slapd tools selective iterations (ITS#6442)
Added slapd syncrepl TCP keepalive (ITS#6389)
Added slapo-ldap^[?] idassert-passthru (ITS#6456)
Added slapo-pbind
Fixed libldap gmtime re-entrancy (ITS#6262)
Fixed libldap gssapi off by one error (ITS#6223)
Fixed libldap GnuTLS serial length (ITS#6460)
Fixed libldap MozNSS context and PEM support (ITS#6432)
Fixed libldap referral on bind behavior(ITS#6510)
Fixed slapd acl non-entry internal searches (ITS#6481)
Fixed slapd acl attrval style initialization (ITS#6520)
Fixed slapd certificateListValidate (ITS#6466)
Fixed slapd empty URI parsing (ITS#6465)
Fixed slapd glued misplaced entries (ITS#6506)
Fixed slapd glued paged cookies (ITS#6507)
Fixed slapd glued paged results (ITS#6504)
Fixed slapd gmtime re-entrancy (ITS#6262)
Fixed slapd to ignore controls with unrecognized flags (ITS#6480)
Fixed slapd entry ownership (ITS#5340)
Fixed slapd sasl auxprop_lookup (ITS#6441)
Fixed slapd sasl auxprop ssf (ITS#5195)
Fixed slapd syncrepl for attributes with no matching rule (ITS#6458)
Fixed slapd syncrepl for unknown attrs and delta-sync (ITS#6473)
Fixed slapd syncrep loop with moddn (ITS#6472)
Fixed slapo-accesslog to not replicate internal purges (ITS#6519)
Fixed slapd-bdb contextCSN^[?] updates from updatedn (ITS#6469)
Fixed slapd-bdb lockobj zeroing (ITS#6501)
Fixed slapd-ldap/meta control criticality (ITS#6523)
Fixed slapd-ldap/meta with ordered values (ITS#6516)
Fixed slapo-collect entry ownership (ITS#5340,ITS#6423)
Fixed slapo-dds with NULL backend (ITS#6490)
Fixed slapo-dynlist entry ownership (ITS#5340,ITS#6423)
Fixed slapo-memberof attr count (ITS#6508)
Fixed slapo-pcache to release its own entries (ITS#6484)
Fixed slapo-pcache with NULL backend (ITS#6490)
Fixed slapo-rwm entry release handling (ITS#6484)
Fixed slapo-rwm memory handling with rewrites (ITS#6526)
Fixed slapo-rwm olcRwmMap handling (ITS#6436)
Fixed slapo-rwm entry ownership (ITS#5340,ITS#6423)
Fixed slapo-syncprov memory leak (ITS#6459)
Fixed slapo-translucent counter increment (ITS#6497)
Fixed slapo-valsort entry ownership (ITS#5340,ITS#6423)
Fixed contrib/sha2 adds mechs for more hashes (ITS#6433)
Fixed contrib/nssov to use nss-pam-ldapd (ITS#6488)
Build Environment
Added back-ldif, back-null test support (ITS#5810)
Documentation
admin24 avoid explicity moduleload statements (ITS#6486)
admin24 broken link fixes (ITS#6493,ITS#6515)
slapd.access(5) val.regex explanation (ITS#5804)

MD5 (openldap-2.4.22.tgz) = ef01b52255ce8e3fbf8aa34f6fe7598b
SHA1 (openldap-2.4.22.tgz) = dd506b461c1fccd55dfff123b87aa6d07c899136

A quick note to say we will be attending UC Expo - The UK's leading Business Enterprise Communications Event.

I know we've been very quiet this year, but there's a good reason for this. Keep your eyes pealed for a big announcement in the next few months about our new VoIP provider (Internet Telephony Service Provider) - SureVoIP (redirects to main site for now).

Gavin.

Suretec Telecom are featured in Platform Oil and Gas magazine:

PLATFORM is a high quality, monthly magazine with editorial, features and advertising relevant to professionals in the oil and gas industry. As well as news, views and technological developments, attention is focused on new products and services, innovations, legislation, contract awards and on the people who form the backbone of the industry.

The Oil and Gas magazine read by decision makers

The monthly magazine for the UK oil and gas industry.
Read onshore and offshore.
* The best way to publicise your business and services.

Full article




and Roustabout Energy International magazine:

Established in Aberdeen in 1972 by Roustabout Publications Ltd., the magazine is one of the longest running, privately owned monthly publications covering the energy sector in the UK and overseas.

The magazine is headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, the acknowledged centre of UK North Sea activity. Its international presence is enhanced by representation in Houston, Texas, and an agent in Dubai, serving the Middle East region.

Magazine Circulation: 10000 Aberdeen and North East Scotland 6000 - Other areas in UK 1000 - International 3000

Full article (page 62).

Companies at opposite ends of the UK work together to produce innovative software solution – without ever meeting up

Aberdeen-based Suretec Telecom is in the business of supporting a company that makes holiday dreams come true. Specialising in tailor-made holidays, luxury hotels, unique tours and cruises, DreamTicket luxury holidays is a niche holiday provider to the UK travel market, and it prides itself on operating cost-effectively without ‘middle-men’ so it can keep its prices keen. And it’s based in Surrey.

Suretec Telecom knows how important it is for small and medium-sized businesses to be cost-conscious, and it makes sure that its customers get high tech solutions to telecom questions, at a very competitive price.

‘Dreamticket is a very successful niche holiday business,’ says Gavin Henry, managing director of Suretec Telecom, which was launched in 2009. ‘It grew considerably from its early beginnings to around 11 employees in 2004 – and its telephone system is its lifeblood for providing customers with the right holiday to satisfy their dreams. That’s where we come in.’

From WARP Enterprise from PIKA Makes Deploying SMB IP-PBX Applications Even Easier:

Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, Suretec Systems has recently launched a new telecom business to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses looking for cost-effective and highly featured telephone systems.

“PIKA’s WARP Enterprise PBX platform is the perfect fit for Suretec’s new Telecom business,” said Suretec managing director Gavin Henry. “It is so flexible in how it can be deployed and configured, yet remains a rock solid platform for any enterprise.

“Our customers have all expressed interest in not only the huge cost savings that can be achieved with open source products, but the feature richness, stability and support,” Henry added. “WARP Enterprise meets the cost targets and also saves us recurring integration expenses over the long run, with stable components that don’t churn on a yearly basis.”

Just a quick one to say that when you think you need Asterisk for a customer request, sometimes you don't!!

A question from a customer yesterday:

Do you know of an IP desk telephone that can be used on a
hotline/autodial/PLAR type basis? Ie pick up one phone and the other
rings, etc.

Tricky bit... no call manager of any sort in-between... just the
phones
direct on the network.

Aastra to the rescue!!! Any of the new 67XXi ranges have a feature either per line or globally like so:

Autodial Settings

Autodial Number
Autodial Timeout

Simply add an IP address in the Autodial Number field for line 1 and when you pick up the handset it dials the other phone on that IP directly. No need to put Asterisk in between or any other system, other than pure IP.

Nice!

P.S. I'm sure most of the business grade IP phones out there can do the same.

Open source software the key to cost-effective business phone systems, says Gavin Henry, saving tens of thousands of pounds at the outset

Aberdeen-based Suretec Systems, the successful open source IT systems specialist, has launched a telecom business to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses looking for cost-effective and highly featured telephone systems. Oil and gas sector companies, along with professional services, travel and public sector organisations, are all taking an interest in the huge cost savings that can be achieved with open source products – and now for their telecoms systems, too.

Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce article - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

OilVoice article - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

Sourcewire press release - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

PublicTechnology.net - Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 is now officially out. Download now and review the final changes list:

OpenLDAP 2.4.19 is now available for download as detailed on our
download page:
http://www.openldap.org/software/download/

and should soon be available on all official mirrors:
ftp://ftp.openldap.org/pub/OpenLDAP/MIRRORS

This is a maintenance release and is made available for general use.
Users of OpenLDAP Software are encouraged to upgrade.

Significant contributors to this release include:
Howard Chu (Symas Corp)
Hallvard Furuseth (University of Oslo)
Quanah Gibson-Mount (Yahoo! Inc)
Ralf Haferkamp (SUSE Linux)
Pierangelo Masarati (Politecnico di Milano)
Rein Tollevik (Basefarm AS)


OpenLDAP 2.4.19 Release (2009/10/06)
Fixed client tools with null timeouts (ITS#6282)
Fixed slapadd to warn about missing attrs for replicas (ITS#6281)
Fixed slapd acl cache (ITS#6287)
Fixed slapd tools to allow -n for conversion (ITS#6258)
Fixed slapd-ldap^[?] with null timeouts (ITS#6282)
Fixed slapd-ldap with strong binds with relay/translucent
(ITS#6296)
Fixed slapd-ldif buffer overflow (ITS#6303)
Fixed slapo-auditlog comments when modifying (ITS#6286)
Fixed slapo-dynlist lock leak (ITS#6308)
Fixed slapo-pcache cache corruption (ITS#6242)
Fixed slapo-sssvlv sort control dereferencing (ITS#6288)
Fixed contrib/autogroup segfaults (ITS#6279)
Fixed contrib/nssov getgroupbymembers (ITS#6291)
Fixed contrib/smbk5pwd rpath linking (ITS#6323)
Build Environment
Fixed --enable-deref support (ITS#6311)
Fixed contrib/autogroup default libtool path (ITS#6284)
Deleted nadf.schema (ITS#6140)


MD5 (openldap-2.4.19.tgz) = 4a6dab2711fcf141f19bb680bc335887
SHA1 (openldap-2.4.19.tgz) = 4a78acae0dd6d51d22ff50eef77912e59b31779a

Keep an eye on the Symas Release Notices site for when Symas OpenLDAP is at 2.4.19.

Suretec.

We've been using the pikawarp for quite a while now in its CTI appliance function for our On-Hold marking product. However, it can also function as an Asterisk appliance.



We all know how powerful Asterisk is, but without an easy GUI like FreePBX it is hard for end users. That's where FreePBX on the warp comes in. It's fast, has all the usual features and even records calls as long as you have a decent size flash card. Oh, and it can fax too!!

For the price, customisation ability, documention and to have FreePBX and not the core Asterisk GUI it is a massive win for Pika!!!

Contact us for more information on deploying an Asterisk appliance for your organisation

A quick update:

SureVoIP a new startup ITSP will be launched by Suretec very soon. It is currently in development and being installed in a Scottish datacentre using various enterprise grade Open Source products. Keep an eye out for when it goes beta and will be available at http://www.surevoip.co.uk

Here's a nice blog post about using the "End Point Manager" with FreePBX on the Pika Warp.

Suretec Telecom use the Pika Warp as the base for it's on-hold marketing appliance.