Category: Tech Bench

Configuring Digium TDM410P/TDM800P Analog Cards with trixbox CE

Configuring Digium TDM410P/TDM800P Analog Cards with trixbox CE

Many people don’t realize just how easy it is to configure a Digium analog interface card with trixbox CE. Not that it is very difficult with other distros, its usually only a few simple commands, but trixbox CE makes it even easier with one command that configures the card very easily. The same setup-pstn command [...]

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Digium TDM800P Analog Interface Card Overview

Digium TDM800P Analog Interface Card Overview

The Wildcard TDM800P is a half-length PCI 2.2-compliant, 8 port card for connecting analog telephones and analog POTS lines through a PC. It supports combinations of FXS and/or FXO modules for a total of 8 lines.
The TDM800P provides an industry first with 8 standard two-wire, RJ-11 interfaces on [...]

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Configuring Cisco 7940/7960 Phones with 3CX

Configuring Cisco 7940/7960 Phones with 3CX

Even though many people really like the Cisco 7940/7960 phones and want to use them with third-party IP PBX platforms such as 3CX, trixbox CE, and trixbox Pro, Cisco does not want you to do this and it is an unsupported configuration. Secondly, the phones are extremely picky about their configuration files and only a [...]

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Configuring Cisco 7960 Phones with trixbox CE / Pro

Configuring Cisco 7960 Phones with trixbox CE / Pro

While Cisco does not support using the 79xx series of phones on third-party IP PBX platforms such as Asterisk/trixbox, it is possible to get them to work with a little effort.  If you do not have the SIP firmware for the phones, this will be your biggest hurdle as the only way to get it [...]

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D-Link DES3028P Managed PoE Switch Overview

D-Link DES3028P Managed PoE Switch Overview

The DES-3028P is a managed 24-port 10/100 Layer 2 stackable PoE switch with 4 Gigabit ports and 2 Combo SFP slots. This switch allows SMBs to set up a secure and effective network at an affordable cost. With additional features such as enhanced network security, bandwidth control, and advanced management, the [...]

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Provisioning Cisco SPA500 Series Phones with 3CX

Provisioning Cisco SPA500 Series Phones with 3CX

In this video Kerry walks you through the process of provisioning Cisco SPA500 series phones with 3CX. During this tutorial, you will see how to use the provisioning tool within 3CX, how to manually provision a phone, how to do semi-automatic provisioning, and fully automatic provisioning using DHCP option 66.

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Configuring a Patton 4114 FXO Gateway with 3CX

Configuring a Patton 4114 FXO Gateway with 3CX

The SN4110 series is the perfect choice for phone-to-IP connectivity supporting up to 8 FXS ports or a combination of 4 FXS and 2 or 4 FXO ports. With its FXS analog ports the SN4110 connects to any legacy telephone or PBX and provides dial-tone, ringing, caller-ID and [...]

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Configuring a Patton 4960 PRI Gateway with 3CX

Configuring a Patton 4960 PRI Gateway with 3CX

The Patton 4960 is ideal for PBX business trunking or corporate VoIP access. Offering up to four software configurable T1/E1/PRI interfaces the SN4960 connects to any switch, PBX and data network with up to 120 simultaneous calls using SIP, T1, E1 or PRI signaling. The dual gigabit Ethernet ports connect to the network for the [...]

Configuring snom MeetingPoint with trixbox CE

Configuring snom MeetingPoint with trixbox CE

The snom MeetingPoint conference phone is a great addition to any office environment and setting it up to work with trixbox CE is actually very simple. Once we create the extension within trixbox CE, we then only need three pieces of information to put into the MeetingPoint’s web interface to get the phone up and [...]

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The Facts about Faxing

The Facts about Faxing

For the most part I don’t really understand why FAXing through a PBX system has become such a big issue over the past couple of years. Legacy PBX platforms have never dealt with FAXes so why should an IP PBX platform be expected to perform a task that big iron systems have never tackled? Even [...]

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