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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

Adding gateways


There are three types of gateways that can be configured to work in sipXecs; managed, unmanaged, and SIP Trunks. A managed gateway is a hardware device that connects to a traditional phone line. sipXecs knows how to generate configuration files (plug and play) for it. An unmanaged gateway is either a hardware device for which sipXecs doesn't know how to generate configuration files, or it may be another SIP PBX (such as another sipXecs system, see the Connecting two sipXecs servers section in Chapter 9). A SIP Trunk is a connection to an ITSP.

Managed gateways

At present, there are eight gateways for which sipXecs generates configuration information (ACME 1000 and AudioCodes Models MP114, MP118, Mediant 1000/2000/3000/BRI, and TP260). This is just a small cross section of gateways available in the market. If your gateway is not in this list, see the following Unmanaged gateways subsection. The following detailed information about managed gateways may prove to be useful in...