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TrixBox Made Easy

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TrixBox Made Easy

Overview of this book

TrixBox is a telephone system based on the popular open source Asterisk PBX (Private Branch eXchange) Software. TrixBox allows an individual or organization to setup a telephone system with traditional telephone networks as well as Internet based telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). SugarCRM can be integrated with Asterisk, and is bundled with Trixbox offering real power and flexibility. The book begins by introducing telephony concepts before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature packed PBX. This book is rich with practical examples and tools. It provides examples of well laid out telephone systems with accompanying spreadsheets to aid the reader in building stable telephony infrastructure.

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TrixBox Made Easy
Oct, 2006 | 168 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TrixBox Made Easy
TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
Preface
Preface
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1
Introduction to VoIP
Introduction to VoIP
The PSTN
What is a PBX?
VoIP
Summary
2
Introducing Asterisk
Introducing Asterisk
Open-Source Software
Asterisk: The Core of TrixBox
Asterisk Features
Related Websites
Summary
3
Introducing TrixBox
Introducing TrixBox
Asterisk@Home to TrixBox: The Name Change
TrixBox Components
Difference Between Asterisk and TrixBox
Prerequisite Skills
The Limitations of TrixBox
The Advantages of TrixBox
Hardware We will Need to Have
The Future of TrixBox
Summary
4
Planning TrixBox Deployment
Planning TrixBox Deployment
The Plan
Case Studies
Summary
5
Installing TrixBox
Installing TrixBox
Obtain the Software
Installation
Basic System Configuration
Summary
6
TrixBox Configuration
TrixBox Configuration
FreePBX
Summary
7
Standard PBX Features
Standard PBX Features
Standard Features
Summary
8
Advanced TrixBox Settings
Advanced TrixBox Settings
Firewall Settings
NAT Considerations
Configuring Zaptel Cards
Configuring T1/E1 Cards
Overhead Paging
Caller-ID Blocking
Making Free Directory-Assistance Calls
Predictive Diallers
Advanced Reporting Tools
Outlook Integration
DISA
Feature Codes
The Sky is the Limit
Summary
9
SugarCRM
SugarCRM
Initial Login
Summary
10
Securing our TrixBox Server
Securing our TrixBox Server
Changing Default Passwords
Connecting on a Public IP Address
Updating the Operating System and Asterisk
Backups
Additional Security
Summary
Commonly Used VoIP Terms
Commonly Used VoIP Terms

Difference Between Asterisk and TrixBox

The simplest way of looking at it is that Asterisk is simply one of the many components of TrixBox. While Asterisk is the actual PBX software, TrixBox is a self-installing package that installs a complete operating system, Asterisk PBX, and all the supporting components as listed in the previous section.

The core strength of TrixBox lies in its simple setup and FreePBX (the web interface). This book will cover FreePBX in detail for the configuration of our PBX system as well as the other components.

To get an Asterisk system up and running, we would have to pick a supported Linux distribution, install the distribution, configure it securely, and then install Asterisk and configure that. With TrixBox we have one installation routine, which not only gives us a fully functioning operating system with Asterisk installed but also pre-installs all the other components for us.

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