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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

Installing sipXecs


Installation from the single CD installer is by far the easiest method. The single CD ISO can be obtained from the sipXecs Wiki. The easiest way to locate the Wiki is from the navigation bar at the SIPFoundry web site (http://www.sipfoundry.org). Download the latest stable release of the PBX ISO and burn it to a CD-ROM (http://sipxecs.sipfoundry.org/pub/sipXecs).

Insert the CD into the PBX computer and boot from it.

Press the Enter key and installation will begin.

Note

The installation will erase and format the hard drives in the computer.

If the server that is being utilized has an IDE drive, instead of pressing Enter, enter manual-format at the boot: prompt.

Installation will begin and the preceding screen will be displayed with a progress bar indicating approximately how much of the installation is complete.

Once the initial part of the installation is complete, the server will reboot and the Linux login screen will appear.

As prompted, for the first time that you...