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2 unusual facts about PBX


Phreaking boxes

In other countries white box can be referred to a Portable DTMFtone-dial keypad with speaker which was used to access an answering machine to hear your messages when you were away from home and also could be used on PBX phone systems that required tone dialing & used to generate tones if the telephone is rotary-dial or its keypad is locked.

SIP provider

In both cases, a SIP-compatible softphone, PBX, or softswitch is configured to place certain (or all) outbound calls through the SIP provider; likewise, the switch or softphone is configured to register with the SIP provider to be notified when a new inbound phone call is available to answer.


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Automatic call distributor

A common protocol to achieve this is CSTA; however, almost every PBX vendor has its own flavor of CSTA, and CSTA is quite hard to program because of its complex nature.

Brekeke PBX

Brekeke PBX comes with a bundled SIP server and is fully SIP-compliant (RFC 3261 Standard), which ensures that it has the highest level of interoperability with other SIP devices and services.

Digital Private Network Signalling System

DPNSS was an active (and successful) collaboration between PBX manufacturers and BT which started relatively slowly (BT & Plessey) but quickly snowballed with MITEL, GEC, Ericsson, Philips and eventually Nortel all joining to create a powerful and feature rich protocol.

GeoPort

To promote the system, in late 1994 Apple organized the Versit alliance along with AT&T, IBM and Siemens to attempt to standardize the commands that the PBX systems responded to.

Intel 80286

The 80286 was designed for multi-user systems with multitasking applications, including communications (such as automated PBXs) and real-time process control.

Mondago

Go Connect - Server platform that connects to multiple makes of PBX.

Versit Consortium

Though the Versit CTI Encyclopedia ended up influencing many products, there was one full compliant implementation of the specifications that was brought to market: Odisei, a French company founded by team member Frédéric Artru developed the IntraSwitch IP-PBX.

VoIP VPN

The recent publication of new VoIP encryption standards built into the protocol, such as ZRTP and SRTP, allow the VoIP client to run without the VPN overhead, integrating with standard features of VoIP PBX without having to manage both the VPN gateway and the PBX.


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