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#30706 12/10/04 01:14 PM
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I know they are pretty new, but I was wondering if anyone has found a good way to connect the EP200 and EP300 from offsite, without using a VPN? I know I could probably put everything out on static public addresses, but that can get expensive, and sort of defeats one of the advertised advantages of being able to sit down in Starbucks and use your softphone. Right now, unless I'm missing something, Comdial requires you to use a VPN to connect back into your network, in order for the phones to work from offsite.

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I cant speak for all manufactures, but I would think you would have to do that with all systems.

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Actually, even with Comdial's iPrimo phone, as long as you had a way in and out thru your router, it worked (possibly better) without the use of a VPN. I work with another manufacturer's VOIP solution that also works without a VPN. I know the SIP solution is a bit different; I'm just looking for other possible options.

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Being behind a router is different than sitting at Starbucks, which your first post referred to. Curious to what system can talk to the "home" system without public IP?

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With correct and pretty easy port forwarding, ESI's remote phones and Comdial's iPrimo phones can connect from inside a network, thru that router, going over the internet, to and thru the office's router, and to the phone system. Of course the outside of the router at the office must have a static public IP address. An even easier setup would be if you gave the phone system its own static public address. I'm sure many are like this. These are just the only two I've worked with.


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