Category: Tech Bench

Setting up SIPdroid Android Softphone on trixbox Pro

Setting up SIPdroid Android Softphone on trixbox Pro

Smart phones are all the rage right now especially with new phones like the iPhone4, Droid X, Droid 2, and Samsung Galaxy S phones and even faster and more powerful phones are coming out every day. It really only makes sense to see how we can integrate these devices, along with SIP softphones, into our [...]

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Configuring Yealink VP-2009 IP Video Phone with trixbox CE

Configuring Yealink VP-2009 IP Video Phone with trixbox CE

The Yealink Vp-2009 IP video phone is a perfect compliment to a trixbox CE installation if you are looking to have video phones. Support for h263 and h264 video codecs is built into trixbox CE so getting a phone like the Yealink Vp-2009 up and running is pretty simple.

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Implementing QoS on a Windows 2008 Server

Implementing QoS on a Windows 2008 Server

Implementing QoS on your network can help to avoid issues when mixing voice and data packets but most people have no idea how to set up QoS on a server. The guys over at 3CX have just written up a nice tutorial on how to setup QoS on Windows 2008. This will work really well [...]

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Do you really need multiple extensions on one phone?

Do you really need multiple extensions on one phone?

A common request we see a lot is people asking how to add a second extension to a single phone. Usually the goal is to have an assistant be able to monitor and answer calls for their boss, a single person answering the calls for multiple companies, or for two people who share the same [...]

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Setting up the 3CX Softphone for Android

Setting up the 3CX Softphone for Android

We can’t get enough of our Android phones here at 888VoipStore, in fact most of us just got the latest batch of phones from our carriers such as the Droid X for those on Verizon and the Samsung Vibrant (a Galaxy S phone) for myself on T-Mobile. While our old Blackberry’s did great on [...]

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trixbox CE FtOCC Training at ITEXPO

trixbox CE FtOCC Training at ITEXPO

Titled “FtOCC CE Technician”, the course provides telephony resellers and IT professionals with in-depth technical training on Fonality’s Open Source trixbox CE, Asterisk-based PBX system.
FtOCC CE Technician is being presented in collaboration with Fonality, a leading open source telephony company and 888VoipStore, the leading [...]

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Configuring External Extensions with 3CX PhoneSystem

Configuring External Extensions with 3CX PhoneSystem

One of the great things about modern IP PBX systems is the ability to have remote phones, the problem is that getting remote phones to work properly isn’t as easy as getting a phone to work on a local network.
To help you get started, the guys over at 3CX have put together a new guide [...]

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3CX Phone Provisioning – A Complete Guide

3CX Phone Provisioning – A Complete Guide

While you can manually configure IP phones to work with 3CX easily enough, it is generally better to use the provisioning tools within 3CX. By utilizing the provisioning tools you ensure a consistent configuration across all phones, eliminate human error, can provision and deploy phones much faster, and make global wide changes to the entire [...]

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How to make a blind and attended transfers with Cisco SPA IP phones

How to make a blind and attended transfers with Cisco SPA IP phones

In this second in a series of articles, the folks at 3CX show you how to do blind and attended transfers with the Cisco SPA series IP Phones.  We highly recommend that you use these guides to create instruction manuals for your customers so that they can easily learn how to use these types of [...]

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How to make a blind and attended transfer with Polycom

How to make a blind and attended transfer with Polycom

With people asking all the time about how to properly make blind and attended transfers with different phone models, 3CX has started publishing a series of articles explaining exactly how these functions work. The instructions are very well documented along with plenty of images and would be very simple to use them to create handout [...]

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