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The Best Features of Skype for Business

A business leader with the need to communicate freely has an endless amount of options. Unified communications services come in many different types; and, for most companies, finding VoIP software solutions that fit the bill is only the first step. It's equally important to narrow the field. Solutions like Skype for Business have indisputable advantages. Thanks to a broad range of features and proven configurations, this Microsoft tool is the ideal all-in-one platform for countless enterprises....

August 22, 2017Read more...

Configuration Guide: Adding a VoIP Provider with 3CX

A VoIP provider is a company who provides Voice over Internet Protocol services, more commonly know as phone service delivered over an internet connection. VoIP providers are an increasingly popular method of delivering dial tone to 3CX Phone System.

November 28, 2014Read more...

Configuring Cisco 7975 IP Phones for SIP

Anyone who has had the "pleasure" of trying to configure a Cisco 7975 phone with a SIP IP PBX system such as Asterisk, trixbox, or 3CX can attest to the fact that the phones are very picky with their config files and much of the information that is really handy to know is simply not documented anywhere. On top of that, to get the phones to even work right you have to use very specific versions of the SIP...

July 9, 2009Read more...

Using trixbox CE as a SIP Gateway

If you have a need to have multiple PBX systems running and you want them all to make and receive calls, you will run into a major problem with that because of NAT issues and port forwarding limitations. In this article, I will explain how to use a trixbox CE system as a front-end gateway that will manage the trunks to the SIP providers and forward calls to the different PBX systems as well as allow the PBX systems...

June 5, 2009Read more...