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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0

You're reading from   Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0 Leveraging open source VOIP for a rock-solid communications system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847196804
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Building Enterprise-Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction to Telephony Concepts and sipXecs FREE CHAPTER 2. System Planning and Equipment Selection 3. Installing sipXecs 4. Configuring Users 5. Configuring Phones in sipXecs 6. Connecting to the World with sipXecs 7. Configuring sipXecs Server Features 8. Using sipXecs—The User Perspective 9. Configuring Advanced sipXecs Features 10. Utilizing the sipXecs ACD Service 11. Maintenance and Security Glossary

Phone firmware


Hardware phone vendors update the software that operates their phones fairly regularly. This software is called firmware. Some vendors also have separate code called a bootrom to initially boot the phones. sipXecs has the ability to maintain these files for administrators in the phone profile download folder (/var/sipxdata/configserver/phone/profile/tftproot).

Different versions of the files can be maintained in the system, but typically, only one set of device files for each vendor is allowed at each time. For example, sipXecs can have only one set of polycom software for all polycom phones in the system.

To create a device file set, click on the Devices menu and select the Device Files menu item. The Device Files page will appear as follows:

Clicking on the Add files drop-down menu will reveal the list of devices for which sipXecs knows how to maintain device files. If the devices you are using are not listed, raw files can be placed in the phone profile download folder using...

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