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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

Phone groups


Managing individual phones for any more than a few phones will quickly become cumbersome and error prone. Managed phones can be placed in groups to utilize the same settings across all phones in the group. The administrator can pick and choose how he or she would like to group phones. Common methods of choosing phone groups include phone model (Polycom330, Polycom650), phone purpose (Receptionists, HelpDesk), or physical location (Boston, NewYork).

Phones can be in any number of groups. For instance, it may be desirable for all Polycom 650 phones in Boston to have just a few different settings from Polycom 650 Phones in New York. Only the order of the groups is important when groups have different values for the same setting. The last group in the list of groups will take the highest priority.

To get to the Phone Groups page, select the menu option for it in the Devices menu. The following page will be displayed:

To add a new group, click on the Add Group hyperlink near the...