Rhino Equipment Corp.

The Ceros Desktop Released.

Jfinstrom — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:50:33 +0000

We are happy to announce the Ceros Desktop slated to release November 2nd, 2009 has finished all the pre-release tags and in now available 5 days ahead of schedule. Contact sales or your reseller today to purchase.

On the Web: http://www.rhinoequipment.com/cerosdesktop.html

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Ceros Desktop!

Jfinstrom — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:33:23 +0000

Ceros Desktop Edition

We are currently taking pre-orders for the Ceros Desktop, slated to ship November 1st, 2009. This unit measures in at an ultra-compact 8.5″ wide by 10″ long and 3″ tall — smaller than a ream of paper! The Ceros Desktop was designed specially for users who need a powerful processing solution but don’t require a massive, power-hungry server.

The Ceros Desktop’s small size and low power usage make it an ideal solution for many situations, such as SOHO offices, satellite or remote offices, any many others. It’s best suited for installations up to 25-50 users, though its computing power can handle many more. The unit is powered by a compact 12VDC power supply which makes this an ideal mobile solution as well as keeping power usage and heat to a minimum. The unit has space for up to two short form factor PCI cards and can handle up to 16 analog channels FXO or FXS using two R8FXX-EC modular cards or up to 24 Analog FXO or FXS channels through use of a R1T1 card and channel bank combination. By combining these cards with any standard short from-factor PCI card and the flexibility of VoIP, the Ceros Desktop can fit your needs, whatever they may be. The Ceros Desktop can be your primary PBX or a remote connection back to your main site. Unlike other compact solutions, the Ceros Desktop is built in the spirit of its Ceros cousins. Designed and built in the USA with pride, its steel chassis and quality components will long outlast the competition’s cookie-cutter plastic box from Taiwan or China. The Ceros Desktop runs a standard Intel x86 processor making it compatible with any PBX or Linux distribution (or most anything else) you wish to use. It’s the perfect, open hardware server, whether you need to replace a group of fax machines, extend some remote POTS lines with a VoIP trunk to your main office, or you just need a compact PBX for your business. Whatever your need the Ceros Desktop is ready for business.

Call Rhino’s sales department today with any questions at 1-877-Rhino-T1 (744-6681), or by email at sales@rhinoequipment.com. Check out our website for detailed specifications, photos, and more at http://www.rhinoequipment.com/cerosdesktop.html

Rhino Package Release 2.2.6

Jfinstrom — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:58:28 +0000

We have released our 2.2.6 driver package. The change log is below. Rpm’s are also availible to trixbox users wh have he rhino-util package via setup-rhino

May 09, 2008 brycec 2.2.6
Version 2.2.6 released. This includes all the below fixes.

May 08, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.5
Resolved bug when unloading the R1T1 “dirty” causing a kernel
panic.
This is the sixth beta release before 2.2.6

May 01, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.4
Fixed the soft-lockup during firmware updating.
Several E1 audio fixups.
This is the fifth beta release before 2.2.6

Apr 09, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.3
TDM/DSP bus routing changes to resolve echo on SIP-Zap calls.
Increased error-resiliency for digital EC cards.
This is the fourth beta release before 2.2.6

Apr 04, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.2
Resolved lockup issues with Trixbox 2.6 (and others sharing its kernel)
Reworked DSP communications to be more CPU-friendly. This is a result
of fixing a bug causing lockups in Trixbox 2.6.
This is the third beta release before 2.2.6

Mar 28, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.1
Resolved issue when using the REC on an E1. The symptom was garbled audio.
Several tweaks in the Makefile to keep up with the changing Kernel and
Zaptel layouts.
Updated IRQ routines for the current Zaptel/Kernel versions.
This is the second beta release before 2.2.6

Feb 25, 2008 brycec 2.2.5.0
First public changelog.
Resolved an issue in which under certain circumstances, when a call was hung
up and echo cancellation disabled, the echo cancellation was actually disabled
on another channel. This issue only affected the rxt1 driver on cards with EC.
This is a the first beta release before 2.2.6

Rhino Ships First PBX in a Flash Ceros

Jfinstrom — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:06:46 +0000

In keeping with Rhino’s goal to be OPEN and part of the community, we announced back in January that we would start shipping a multitude of Asterisk based distributions. Today Rhino shipped out our first Ceros with PBX in a Flash.

Pbx in a flash entered into the game not too long ago built by Joe Roper and distributed by Ward Mundy of Nerd Vittles. The distribution has gained a foothold and a following that is based on the fans of Ward Mundy and his Asterisk scripts. The First PBX in a Flash Ceros is on its Way to Oregon and we hope there will be many more shipping. You may also notice that this isn’t the Ceros you may be familiar with. After months of design changes the Ceros has been given an extreme makeover. Keep an eye out for the Official announcement of the new, more attractive Ceros.

More on PBX in a Flash at http://pbxinaflash.com

FreePBX Training

Jfinstrom — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:13:05 +0000

I just got back after spending two days in beautiful Charleston, SC. at the FreePBX training event. I met many great people from the community and other industry suppliers such as Aastra and Snom. I met David (CEO) of Sangoma and Jared (Community Relations Manager) from Digium. There were quite a few other folks you may know like Robert Keller, Greg MacLellan (FreePBX), Philipe (FreePBX), Tony and Ethan (Scmoozecom), Joe Roper (PBX in a Flash and A2Billing), and so many more great people. Just meeting our friends in theindustry was fun enough, the training was the bonus. There was much covered in the training sessions, and I personally spoke on the subject of “T1″. Rhino gave away some door prizes (boards) and overall, with this being the first training session for FreePBX, I give this event a 9 out of a possible 10. I imagine that the next one will be off the charts, and I recommend to anyone that wants FreePBX training with emphasis on marketing Asterisk to your customers to attend this great event. I hear that the next one will be on the West Coast, perhaps Las Vegas. I have attached some photos from the event. Rhino is a proud member of the community and is a proud sponsor and participant of these community events.

Come meet me at the FreePBX training in South Carolina

Jfinstrom — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:48:53 +0000

Did you know about the FreePBX training coming at the end of the month? If you have already registered or are lucky enough to get the last slot, in addition to FreePBX training there will be some other cool stuff.

Okay so lets drop some names:

Philippe (FreePBX)

Tony lewis (schmooze)

Ward Mundy (Nerd vittles)

Tom King (PBX in a flash)

Joe Roper (ConcordIAX/A2Billing)

There are many more, these folks have made an impression in the community and they will all be part of this event. I will also be there as an ambassador for Rhino. There will be Rhino door prizes and much more. I think this event will truly be beneficial to all who are lucky enough to have made it in. There is 1 day left and 1 slot left will it be yours? I hope to see you there.

Rhino Equipment announced as IT EXPO best of Show Winner.

Jfinstrom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:05:42 +0000

We just got word that we were named one of the best of show winners for TMC IT expo 2008.

Some of you may have seen Jim out there in Florida showing off some of Rhino’s New toys. Keep your eyes open because there are going to be some awesome new products releasing this year and all will have the great quality and support you expect from Rhino.

STORY HERE

What could be a cool toy.

Jfinstrom — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:51:38 +0000

So you may have seen the posts floating around about Ethen’s (schmooze communications) new toy. I first saw the posts with saw Microsoft in the title which almost made me not read it. Well I have dealt with the schmooze guys and thought I would give it a chance. Anyhow it appears he has developed what he calls a Magic button. I am one of those geeks who likes cool toys but has ADD so bad I probably would get bored fast with it. Basically you push a button and you can initiate a call, transfer, park, un-park etc. with your voice. My cell phone does a little bit of this but as stated above I played with it for a week then discovered other things. Fortunately the majority of folks are not me and these features are very popular with the end users. I think this thing has potential to be really cool and it will be demonstrated at the FreePBX training. To read Ethan’s post go to http://www.freepbx.org/news/2008-01-29/microsoft-response-point-pbx-asterisk-and-beyond

FreePBX Rhino seats sell out

Jfinstrom — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:54:37 +0000

The Rhino scholarships have been used but you can still sign up. hurry before the event sells out.

http://freepbx.org/open-telephony-training-seminar-rhino

trixbox 2.4 kernel-pae

Jfinstrom — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:47:34 +0000

If Anaconda (the CentOS installer) detects a PAE compatible processor it will install kernel and kernel-pae

kernel-PAE (x86-only): Contains a kernel with support for 64GB of memory on x86 systems through Physical Address Extensions (PAE). Only x86 CPUs that support PAE can run this kernel. This kernel is provided because x86 systems can’t address more than 4GB of memory without PAE extensions.

trixbox is package based and everything wraps around modules in a specific kernel.

If your system gets the pae kernel you can correct this by editing /etc/grub.conf

you should see something to the effect of :
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title trixbox (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE ro root=LABEL=/1 acpi=off
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE.img
title trixbox-base (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 acpi=off
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5.img

Simply use # to comment out:
#title trixbox (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE)
#root (hd0,0)
#kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE ro root=LABEL=/1 acpi=off
#initrd /initrd-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5PAE.img

Now you can ensure it will boot to the correct image.