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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

Direct Inward System Access (DISA)


A DISA call target will provide a caller with a dial tone on the PBX. Once the caller has a dial tone, they can utilize the same set of functions that are utilized by a user with VoIP endpoint attached to the PBX. This means that a person who is remotely located could be given access to dial any extension directly, check their voicemail messages, or even place calls to external telephone numbers through the PBX.

In order to set up a DISA call target, click on the DISA option under the Internal Options & Configurations section of the navigation menu on the left side of the FreePBX interface as shown in the following screenshot:

DISA call targets have following eight configuration options:

  1. 1. DISA name

  2. 2. PIN

  3. 3. Response Timeout

  4. 4. Digit Timeout

  5. 5. Require Confirmation

  6. 6. Caller ID

  7. 7. Context

  8. 8. Allow Hangup

The DISA name field is used to identify the DISA configuration when it is being selected as a call target in other parts of the FreePBX interface...