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Suretec allocated a Communications Provider Identity ("CUPID") code by Ofcom

Tuesday, April 27. 2010

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.

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Catalyst, Dojo, FreeSWITCH, Jabber/XMPP, Linux, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Perl, PostgreSQL, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 12:13 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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OpenLDAP 2.4.22 released

Monday, April 26. 2010

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

Posted by Suretec in Open Source, OpenLDAP, Suretec at 17:22 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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UC Expo 10th March

Thursday, March 4. 2010

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.

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, Linux, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 09:45 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yubico key has arrived!

Thursday, December 17. 2009

It's taken us a while to get round to ordering one of these Yubikeys from Yubico, but they do look great and have lots of documentation via the wiki.

We're going to be testing them via the pam module for SSH access (and of course using pam_ldap).

So, users in LDAP^[?] via pam, and a Yubikey, let's see how it goes!

(will be interesting for logging in a SIP handset via Asterisk or FreeSWITCH that needs one too and all the others technologies Suretec use and support (Catalyst, Perl, PostgresSQL, Squid and more....). We'll see....

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Catalyst, Jabber/XMPP, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Perl, PostgreSQL, SIP, Squid, Suretec, VoIP at 15:39 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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Aberdeen’s Suretec Telecom helps holiday dreams come true with open source call recording

Monday, November 2. 2009

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.’

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Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, Suretec, VoIP at 14:20 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Monitoring your LDAP directory

Friday, October 23. 2009

Hi all,

Andreas Andersson posted this on the openldap technical list last week about CN=Montior:

My name is Andreas and I want to inform you about a little project I've been working on called CN=Monitor.
It's about monitoring and verifying directory servers with focus on open source LDAP^[?] servers. From single installed servers to large scaled deployments.

Its a webbased application where you can:
- Verify availability, compare load and performance between servers
- Collect historical events for long term analysis (and get weekly reports by mail)
- Verify cluster and load balancing functionality
- Query several directories at the same time for data consistancy verification
... and a lot more.

Why the name CN=Monitor. Well.. a lot of the information collected and analyzed is gathered from the CN=Monitor base DN.

Looks very promising!!!

Will keep you posted,

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Open Source, OpenLDAP at 17:04 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Suretec now have a merchant account!

Friday, October 16. 2009

It's been a long process, almost 6 weeks, what with the new laws regarding PCI DSS compliance as of the 1st of October 2009, PCI DSS Scans, Business plans, website terms and connditions and many more things we have a merchant account at last!!!

This is mainly for our new Internet Telephony Service Provider called SureVoIP which is currently live with various customers but has no front facing sales and marketing site yet, only the admin and customer portal.

We'll keep you posted with a proper press release in due course.

Thanks,

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Catalyst, Dojo, Jabber/XMPP, Linux, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Perl, PostgreSQL, SIP, Squid, Suretec, VoIP at 13:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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OpenSIPS 1.6.0 - a newmajor release is out

Friday, October 16. 2009

After almost 7 months from the last major release (1.5.0), OpenSIPS evolves with a new major release, 1.6.0.

OpenSIPS 1.6.0 comes with several critical improvements (DB area, dialog support), but also with new functionalities
(like memchaced support, B2Bua implementation, virtual DB URLs, STUN server, JSON support, new AAA/RADIUS interface, etc).

A complete compilation with all the additions and improvements for *OpenSIPS 1.6.0 *release is available under:
http://www.opensips.org/Main/Ver160

Many thanks to all the people who got involved in this release (and in the overall OpenSIPS project) and contributed with code, with testing and debuging, with patches or reports, with support on the lists, help with packaging and documentation.
I will avoid listing names, not because they do not deserve it, but simply because it will impossible to list list everybody here and I do not what to be unfair with some of them (because I simply forgot a name or because of the limited space).

But nevertheless, I want to thanks you all for out great job and not in my behalf, but in the behalf of people who will find this piece of software a useful tool.

The full Changelog is available here:
http://opensips.org/pub/opensips/1.6.0/src/ChangeLog

To get the OpenSIPS 1.6.0 version, see :

website page: http://www.opensips.org/Resources/Downloads

SF project:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=232389&package_id=281827&release_id=670379

Note that for the moment only the source tarballs are available. The packages (debs,rpms, etc) will be generated starting now. If anybody can help in generating packages for different distros or architectures, please let me know and I will upload them on the website.

Best regards,
Bogdan

Posted by Gavin Henry in Asterisk, Open Source, OpenSIPS, Suretec, VoIP at 09:21 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Suretec Telecom finds WARP Enterprise 'rock solid'

Tuesday, October 13. 2009

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.”

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 22:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Aberdeen-based Suretec launches Telecom division

Tuesday, October 13. 2009

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

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Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 09:06 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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OpenLDAP 2.4.19 Released

Tuesday, October 6. 2009

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.

Posted by Suretec in Open Source, OpenLDAP, Suretec at 10:02 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Updated LDAP RFCs drafts - "LDAP as a Network Information Service" and "Password Policy for LDAP Directories"

Monday, August 17. 2009

As OpenLDAP sets the standard for being the most standards based LDAP^[?] directory, you'll be pleased to know that our partners Symas are keeping everyone updated about the wonderful world of collaboration in the LDAP world and in the process updating some much needed draft RFCs.

So, when you've got a second have a read of:

Password Policy for LDAP Directories - draft-behera-ldap^[?]-password-policy-10.txt

and

An Approach for Using LDAP as a Network Information Service - draft-howard-rfc2307bis-02.txt

Gavin.

Posted by Gavin Henry in Open Source, OpenLDAP, Suretec at 10:10 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Pika Warp Asterisk appliance with FreePBX

Wednesday, August 12. 2009

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

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Linux, Open Source, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 12:27 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Suretec VoIP platform coming soon - SureVoIP

Friday, August 7. 2009

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

Posted by Suretec in Asterisk, Catalyst, Dojo, Jabber/XMPP, Linux, Open Source, OpenLDAP, OpenSIPS, Perl, PostgreSQL, SIP, Suretec, VoIP at 10:43 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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