Microsoft Calling Plans for Teams are a great way for Teams users to enable the telephony features of Microsoft Teams without having to deploy any of the infrastructure required for Teams Direct Routing. When you use the Calling Plan service,
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The CRTC once again fails Canadians
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Brief Summary of the Rogers Outage RFI
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Rogers outage postmortem - is it time for structural separation?
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Canadians deserve service based competition
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Reolink NVRs and 172.16/12 - Or how I wasted my evening
Lately I have been looking for an IP Camera solution for my house. The requirements were simple - it needed to be cost effective, support wired and wireless cameras, and not require a connection to the cloud to operate. While