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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

Chapter 3. Installing sipXecs

sipXecs can be installed by compiling for a specific Linux distribution, by RPM to an existing Linux installation or from a single CD ISO installer (an ISO is an image file of a CD that be used to burn a CD). This installation chapter will focus only on the single CD ISO installer. Methods for installing from RPM or compiling sipXecs from source can be found in the sipXecs Wiki (linked at http://www.sipfoundry.org). This chapter will cover:

  • Completing the cabling requirements

  • Completing the network infrastructure requirements

  • Installing sipXecs

Complete cabling requirements

Make sure that the network drops are available wherever phones are required. Review the notes collected for each user and phone to make sure that none are missed. By utilizing network drops for standard analog phones as well as IP phones, future cabling may not be required if an IP phone is desired at some point.

In most cases the demarc is in a location that is not particularly well suited...