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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0

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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0

Overview of this book

Open source telephony systems are making big waves in the communications industry. Moving your organization from a lab environment to production system can seem like a daunting and inherently risky proposition. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs delivers proven techniques for deploying reliable and robust communications systems. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs provides a guiding hand in planning, building and migrating a corporate communications system to the open source sipXecs SIP PBX platform. Following this step-by-step guide makes normally complex tasks, such as migrating your existing communication system to VOIP and deploying phones, easy. Imagine how good you'll feel when you have a complete, enterprise ready telephony system at work in your business. Planning a communications system for any size of network can seem an overwhelmingly complicated task. Deploying a robust and reliable communications system may seem even harder. This book will start by helping you understand the nuts and bolts of a Voice over IP Telephony system. The base knowledge gained is then built upon with system design and product selection. Soon you will be able to implement, utilize and maintain a communications system with sipXecs. Many screen-shots and diagrams help to illustrate and make simple what can otherwise be a complex undertaking. It's easy to build an enterprise ready telephony system when you follow this helpful, straightforward guide.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Enterprise-Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Glossary

Equipment selection


Selecting the proper equipment can make or break your project. Phones and network equipment are usually the two largest-ticket items. However, cutting corners too much on either of these components can result in a poor user experience.

Network equipment

The network equipment selection and configuration is critically important. The network is the foundation on which the entire system will be built. It must be reliable, fast, and robust if the voice system is to follow suit. Several important design considerations drive equipment selection, such as network switch connectivity, Quality of Service support, Virtual Local Area Network support, how to power the phones, whether Gigabit network connectivity is required to each desk, and whether any existing network equipment be utilized.

Network switch connectivity

Some good rules of thumb to follow when determining where and how many network switches may be required for the project are:

  • Minimize network closets: By minimizing...