Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Conferences


Conferences allow two or more calls to be joined together so that all parties on the call can hear one another. At least one conference room must be configured before this target option is available. To configure a conference room, click on the Conferences link under the Internal Options & Configuration header in the FreePBX navigation menu:

The first section of the Add Conference screen requires a number and description for the conference room that is being created:

The Conference Number is a number that internal endpoints can dial to reach this conference. Like the ring groups, this can be thought of as the extension number of the conference.

The Conference Name is meant to identify the purpose of the conference room. The name is used only when selecting the room as a call target, and is not visible by the caller in any way.

The User PIN is a numeric passcode that is used to enter the conference room. If a PIN is entered in this field, no one is able to join the conference...