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The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial

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The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial

Overview of this book

Traditional PBX systems have often been expensive and proprietary. With 3CX, you can now create an easy-to-use, complete, and cost-effective phone system on Microsoft Windows. This practical guide offers the insight that a reader needs to exploit the potential that 3CX has to offer.This practical hands-on book covers everything you need to know about designing, installing and customizing 3CX to create an all-inclusive phone system. It takes a real-world approach that walks you through all aspects of 3CX and its features. From installing the software, to backing things up, to understanding what hardware you need – this book covers it all.The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial will take you from knowing very little about VoIP to almost expert level with detailed how-tos on every aspect of 3CX. Starting with the basics, and covering the free version of 3CX as well as the more advanced features of the Enterprise version, you will learn it all.In other words, this book covers numerous topics such as installation and configuration of 3CX, choosing a VoIP Provider, integration of a trunk into 3CX, the commonly used 3CX hardware, and backing up your phone system.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Trunk backup


In previous chapters, we discussed trunks and dial plans. How do you backup those if one goes down? You have to set up several trunks and then, in your dial plan, set the other trunks as 2nd or 3rd options:

Just make sure your Strip Digits and Prepend rules apply correctly to those lines.

That covers outbound backup, but what about inbound? This is the tricky part. You will need to talk to your PSTN or ITSP vendor and see what options they offer. Some have roll-over options, where the call will go to another number in their system.

Others have a "disaster recovery" option, where they will forward the incoming call to any phone number you want. Take advantage of these options as your lines will go down someday.