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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

Looking at the Patton 4960 T1 gateway


The Patton 4960 allows you to connect 3CX to T1 or PRI depending on the model you get. It can have one to four ports. Following is the image of a Patton 4960 unit with four PRI ports and two Ethernet ports:

Configuring the Patton 4960

The Patton 4960 configures exactly like Patton 4114. The user interface and steps to import the 3CX configuration file are identical, so we can use the steps mentioned previously in the Configuring the Patton 4114 FXO gateway section to import the 3CX configuration file.

The one you have to watch out for is related to the Ethernet ports on two port models. When the Patton gateway ships, new port 0/0 will be a DHCP client and port 0/1 will be a DHCP server, so you will want to plug into port 0/0. The tricky thing is after the gateway has been configured, data will be routed to port 0/1, so you will need to switch this after the unit has been configured by the 3CX configuration file.

Some other 3CX supported T1/PRI cards...