TrixBox Made Easy: A step-by-step guide to installing and running your home and office VoIP system - Softcover

Dempster, Barrie; Garrison, Kerry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904811930 ISBN 13: 9781904811930

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Learn how to set up and use TrixBox (formally known as Asterisk@Home) as a traditional and Internet telephone system. The book is written in an easy to follow walk-through style, building up concepts step by step, before guiding you carefully through the planning, deployment, and management of your telephone system. Because the book covers the concepts and practices of both telephony and Asterisk, it is suitable for both professional and home users with no prior telecom experience. It's ideal for any user wishing to set up a telephony system for individual or small business usage. No previous knowledge of Trixbox or networking is required, although some basic knowledge of PBX and Linux would be an advantage.

About this title

Product Description

Trixbox Made Easy TrixBox is a telephone system based on the popular open source Asterisk PBX (Private Branch eXchange) Software. TrixBox allows an individual or organization to setup a telephone system with traditional telephone networks as well as Internet based telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). SugarCRM is already integrated with Asterisk, hence it has been bundled with Trixbox too to increase flexibility. This book guides the reader in the setup of this system and how to manage the telephone system. The book begins by introducing telephony concepts before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and managem...

About the Author

Kerry Garrison has been in the IT industry for over 20 years with positions ranging from IT Director of a large multi-site distribution company to developing a large hosted web server platform for a major ISP, to finally running his own IT consulting business in Southern California. Kerry was introduced to the world of Asterisk by a friend and began running his own business on it. After about a year of working with it and writing some articles that became extremely popular on the net, he felt it was time to start putting clients onto Asterisk-based systems. Today, Asterisk PBX systems represent a significant portion of his business revenue. Kerry has spoken at Astricon and does a regular seminar series in California. He is also the publisher of both http://www.voipspeak.net and http://www.asterisktutorials.com. He is very active with the Asterisk and FreePBX community and has even contributed modules to the FreePBX project.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1904811930
• ISBN 13: 9781904811930
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 155