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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

Phonebooks


The Phonebook feature in sipXecs allows centralized management of phone number directories within the phone system. This allows users to look up phone extensions and phone numbers by name, and dial directly from the directory.

The administrator can create different directories per department, user group, or for individual users. In addition to being able to maintain a list of internal users, lists of external phone numbers can be imported for often-needed phone numbers. At present, this feature is supported on Polycom, snom, and ClearOne MAX IP phones.

To create a system phonebook, from the System Administration page click on the Features menu and select the Phonebooks menu item. The following page will then be displayed:

Click on the Add Phonebook link near the middle of the page and the Phonebook page, as shown in the following screenshot, will be displayed:

The following settings can be set for each phonebook:

  • Name: This is a text name given to the phonebook.

  • Description...