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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

Chapter 9. Configuring Advanced sipXecs Features

In this chapter we'll explore the built-in conference services provided by sipXecs and then explore some more advanced sipXecs call routing features. This chapter will include:

  • Utilizing the cnference service

  • How to configure DIDs

  • Using phantom users for call routing

  • Connecting two sipXecs servers

Conference service

Companies can spend hundreds of dollars monthly on conferencing services. sipXecs's built-in conference bridge can satisfy most conferencing needs for even the largest organizations. The conference service is built on top of Freeswitch (www.freeswitch.org).

The conference server is not enabled by default, so to enable it, click on the System menu and then select the Servers menu item. The following page will be displayed:

Click on the server name to display the services that are enabled on the server. As shown in the following screenshot, click on the checkbox next to Conference, and click on OK at the bottom of the page.

Once the...