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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Info Services


Feature code

Default

Action

Call Trace

*69

Plays back the telephone number or extension number of the last caller to the phone dialing the feature code.

Directory

#

Connects the user to the company directory. The directory is populated with all users who have voicemail boxes. The directory can be searched by first name and last name (this is a configurable option on the FreePBX General Settings page). When a user finds the person they are looking for, they can opt to be transferred to that person.

Echo Test

*43

Plays back whatever the user is saying as they are saying it. The echo test is designed to provide a sense of the latency between the telephone dialing the feature code and the Asterisk server.

Speak Your Exten Number

*65

Plays back the extension number of the extension placing the call.

Speaking Clock

*60

Plays back the current time on the Asterisk server.