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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

System protection


There are many ways to protect the components of a server from failure or damage. While dealing with a PBX, these protection methods are even more important. As the PBX controls voice communications for a company, downtime often means lost income and angry employees.

While the installation and setup of the equipment listed here is beyond the scope of this book, it is worth keeping them in mind during installation.

Uninterruptible power supplies

An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is essential to every VoIP system. A UPS acts as a battery backup in the event of a power failure. If the power supply is cut, anything plugged into the UPS will continue to run until the battery runs out. Most UPS units will also be able to send a shutdown signal to the server when the battery is nearly empty, allowing a clean shutdown.

Some UPS units will also provide a power conditioning service, sending a stable level of power to any attached device. This protects any attached equipment from...