MS to release Small Business Phone System - Trixbox killer?
Filed under: Asterisk News — blacksheep @ September 25, 2007 9:25 am
This may not be news to some but I must have missed it. Microsoft has been working on a small business IP based telephone system called Response Point, slated for release later this year or early next year. Reading the spec its not an Asterisk / Trixbok killer just yet. Only available in the US at release, doesnt look like any provision for using ISDN, handsets and hardware must be compatible and from one of three manufacturers at the moment. But given Microsofts history of putting something out and working to get it right I can see in two or three years time you’ll be able to walk into PC world and buy this off the shelf, complete with an MS SIP trunk! Apparently the software sits on top off a locked down version of XP on some sort of flash card. It also integrates tightly with Outlook and all the other MS applications as you would expect. To me thats a major selling point.
Which Version of Trixbox is Stable?
Filed under: Trixbox UK Config — blacksheep @ September 18, 2007 10:21 am
I have seen a few comments knocking around asking what version of Trixbox should I be using for a live system. The latest “stable” version of Trixbox as of today (18th Sep 2007) is 2.2.4. There is a beta version available 2.3.0.2 which is based on the new release of Asterisk. Now the new release of Asterisk (1.4) is basically pretty much a rewrite. Personally I wouldn’t be using it on any systems I had sold to my customers for a good while yet and the Trixbox release using it is strictly beta. I.e. there’s still a lot of stuff to be fixed.
Vigor router setup for an Asterisk based PBX on the local network using NAT and behind the routers own Firewall.
Filed under: Trixbox UK Config — blacksheep @ September 3, 2007 10:16 am
Step 1.
Telnet to the router (Start a DOS command prompt on your PC and type Telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the local network IP address of the router). You will need to enter  the admin username and password when asked. Once you are into the router at the prompt enter:-
 sys sip_alg 0
This turns off the routers SIP ALG (Session Initiation Protocol Application Layer Gateway Sip) which we have so far found to be problematic with our setup.
Step 2.
Access the router via its web interface. Type http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx into the address bar of a browser on a PC attached to your local network. You will need the admin username and password. Once you are into the router, on the NAT menu select “open ports”.
Tick the “Enable Open Ports” box.
Comment = IP-PBX (or whatever)
Local Computer = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (the IP address of your Asterisk based PBX server).
Port Settings:-
| Protocol |
Start Port |
End Port |
| UDP |
5004 |
5082 |
| UDP |
8000 |
20000 |
| TCP |
5060 |
5060 |
| UDP |
2727 |
2727 |
| UDP |
4569 |
4569 |
The IP PBX and your existing network
Filed under: Trixbox UK Config — blacksheep @ September 2, 2007 7:18 pm
I’ve just put together a quick diagram of how we are incorporating our BritTrix PBX with some of the existing Microsoft Small Business Server networks we have deployed. As I’ve outlined elsewhere on the blog we usually have a second ADSL line dedicated to VoIP.
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For a bigger version of the Network PBX diagram click here
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