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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 firmware


Hardware phone vendors update the software that operates their phones fairly regularly. This software is called firmware. Some vendors also have separate code called a bootrom to initially boot the phones. sipXecs has the ability to maintain these files for administrators in the phone profile download folder (/var/sipxdata/configserver/phone/profile/tftproot).

Different versions of the files can be maintained in the system, but typically, only one set of device files for each vendor is allowed at each time. For example, sipXecs can have only one set of polycom software for all polycom phones in the system.

To create a device file set, click on the Devices menu and select the Device Files menu item. The Device Files page will appear as follows:

Clicking on the Add files drop-down menu will reveal the list of devices for which sipXecs knows how to maintain device files. If the devices you are using are not listed, raw files can be placed in the phone profile download folder using...