A ‘rather good muse’ already!
Today I had a quick walk across Birmingham, just to find my commute bearings a little. Thankfully it looks like I’ll be able to traverse the city centre (Jewellery Quarter to Digbeth) in around 30-35 minutes! Some good exercise each day, too!
Whilst I was there, I had a quick drool over the new monitor purchased for my desk: a 22″ Samsung 225BW. Whilst it’s not as nice as the 215TW I’ve got at home, it’s most-certainly going to be a nice monitor to work with on a daily basis.
I had a fairly lengthy chat with Jon (the current student) and somewhere in the muddle of topics, we began talking about the VoIP telephony system currently in-service there. He was considering ways in which it could be improved, and I quickly pointed-out the possibility of utilising the multitude of Cisco phones with Cisco CallManager Express, loaded onto one of the existing routers.
Lo and behold, I find an e-mail (by the time I’d wandered home) in my inbox, entitled ‘Cisco CME at Redditch’:
Hi all,Tom came in yesterday and proved to be a rather good muse. I had completely
overlooked that we have a Cisco 2811 at Redditch. Putting Cisco Call manager
express on there would be perfect - it'd get us a Cisco call manager to try
out, it's at Redditch already so there is plenty of bandwidth and, best of
all, it's free!We'd need to get the IOS with CCME (or Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Express as they call it now) from Steve's friend I think.Martin, what do you think?
So I guess I’m already proving to be at-least a little useful. Here’s hoping I’ll get to work on the phone systems a little more in the coming months! 