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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

Summary


We should now have a full understanding of what is required in order to build a 3CX Phone System. In this chapter, we looked at the hardware and operating system requirements and how to get the 3CX download at http://www.3cx.com/ phone-system/download-phone-system.html. Finally, we learned how to install the 3CX system, making sure that things were running correctly by checking up on 3CX's status.

In the next chapter, we will connect softphone and hardphone extensions to 3CX and test to make sure they are working. We will log in to the extension portal to see the status of the extension and learn how users can change some information about themselves. We will also explore some of the more advanced extension configuration options, such as voicemail and call forwarding rules.