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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
TrixBox Made Easy
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to VoIP
6
TrixBox Configuration
Commonly Used VoIP Terms

Caller-ID Blocking


If we are using PSTN circuits and want to be able to block caller-id, this simple script can be used to send the *67 code to the phone line:

exten => *67,1,Dial(ZAP/1/*67 )
exten => *67,2,Wait(3)
exten => *67,3,SoftHangup(ZAP/1)
exten => *67,5,DISA(no-password|from-internal)

Note

Caller-ID Blocking

*67 is the code used in the US to prevent the caller-id being displayed. In countries other than the US, this might differ. For example, in the UK we should dial the numbers 141. We should check that our providers offer this option and that we have the correct code.

If we read through the code, we can see that the script dials *67 through the first available PSTN line, performs a soft hang-up, which doesn't actually release the line, and then returns back a dial tone that will enable us to dial out to the number we want to call.