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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

Paging Groups


A paging group is a group of extensions that will be contacted, automatically go off hook, and have an announcement message played. Polycom and LG Nortel phones are automatically configured to automatically answer a page. Other phones may need to be configured manually to receive a page.

The Paging Groups feature is accessed from the System Administration page by clicking on the Features menu and selecting the Paging Groups menu item. The following page will be displayed:

Click on the Add Paging Group hyperlink near the middle of the page and the Paging Group configuration page will be dislayed as seen in the following screenshot:

The following settings are available for configuration:

  • Page Group Number: This is the number that will be dialed after the paging group feature code (the default feature code is *77). If the system will have many paging groups then start with double-digit codes and adjust your phone dial plans accordingly.

  • Description: This is a text explanation...