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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

Hunt Groups


A hunt group is a collection of extensions that ring in a particular order when the hunt group number is dialed. To access the Hunt Groups page, from the System Administration page click on the Features menu and select the Hunt Groups menu item. The Hunt Groups page will be displayed as follows.

To add a hunt group, click on the Add Hunt Group hyperlink near the middle of the page. The Hunt Group page will be displayed as follows:

Hunt groups are configured with the following information:

  • Name: This is the text name for the hunt group.

  • Extension: This is the extension that is dialed to reach the hunt group, often referred to as the pilot number for the hunt group.

  • Description: This is the text description to help document the system configuration.

  • Call Sequence: This is the order in which extensions ring and for how long they ring. Check the box and use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the order of extensions. The drop-down box under Sequence can have values...