Mercury is truly revolutionary, but you need an IP phone system to use it, and many companies don’t have one. It can be remotely managed and configured as well, making it practical to deploy across a large organization. Mercury has a number of very cool features, including the ability to tie into a standard calendar/scheduling system to set up audio and video conferences. ![]() It’s been called the Swiss Army knife of collaboration, a very high quality speakerphone, control panel, and room interface, with wired and wireless computer connections, audio and video connections, and its own camera. They’re great for one-to-one video calls using a laptop or mobile device, but for group-to-group calls, not so much.Įnter Crestron Mercury, a game-changing device that can work with any of these platforms in a conference room or huddle room, utilizing the room’s audio visual system and controlling every component. ![]() There is a good explanation of how to do this for a large organization in the SIP.EDU cookbook.Most of us have used a web-based video communications platform, whether Skype, Hangouts, WebEx, GoToMeeting, Bluejeans, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, HipChat, Amazon Chime, or Cisco Spark. I achieved this by first following the instructions here in Step 7, then, since I didn’t have an IP phone, I configured the OnSIP control panel to forward all calls to my “extension” to my PSTN phone number. In other words, somebody with an IP phone could dial my email address and my regular PSTN desk phone would ring. There are detailed instructions on the OnSIP website.īefore I got my IP phone working, SIP calls addressed to my email address would come to my POTS phone. The OnSIP control panel allows you to specify the domain name for your SIP account for yourself. Second, you must configure your SIP server to service requests addressed to your domain name. HostGator customer support modified the DNS records within a day, but didn’t get it working until the second attempt. So I sent the following email to could you add the following DNS SRV record to : For the type of account I have there, HostGator does not let you administer your own DNS. The DNS server for my domain name,, is HostGator, and my VoIP service provider is, so these instructions explain how to do it for this combination of DNS and SIP servers.įirst, you must configure your DNS to forward SIP requests for your domain name to your SIP server. For example, DNS for points to Google for email, to OnSIP for SIP and to for There is an excellent explanation of this concept at, together with links for how to add SRV records to your DNS at, and. The DNS records that specify where your emails go are called MX records the DNS records that specify where your voice calls go are called SRV records. If you have your own domain name, you can do this by adding records to the DNS (Domain Name Service) for your domain. But it is more user-friendly to use the same address for both email and voice calls. A SIP address looks exactly like an email address: If you are using a hosted VoIP service like OnSIP, the domain for your SIP server would normally be that, or whatever. So if you want a wideband call you must use the SIP addressing scheme. The problem with these numbers is that the network tends to assume that calls made using them are destined for the PSTN, and consequently encodes them using a narrowband codec like G.729 or G.711. ![]() Most phones are addressed with a phone number – technically called an E.164 number after the ITU specification that defines the world-wide PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) numbering scheme.
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