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DHCP and DNS Configuration

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NTP Configuration

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sipXecs Service Commands

Uninstalling

The Enterprise Communications Solution

sipXecs is a modular scalable communications solution for enterprises of all sizes. It provides a highly available SIP routing core integrated with a growing suite of communications services all managed through a unified web based management application. sipXecs provides PBX telephony services integrated with instant messaging, and allows the use of advanced communications tools like video calling.

The sipXecs IP PBX is a native SIP based solution that offers all the typical features expected from a PBX, including voicemail, unified messaging, auto-attendant, conferencing, presence and call center capabilities. The sipXecs IP PBX can be deployed on a single server for smaller installations or as a distributed and optionally redundant system for larger deployments. It's Web Services (SOA) based management and configuration system allows centralized management of a distributed system and offers plug & play configuration for all phones and gateways.

The sipXecs IP PBX developer community is strong and growing. The sipXecs IP PBX has built a reputation for being easy to use, scalable and of high quality. In addition, sipXecs IP PBX is a unified communications solution, not just an IP PBX.

The sipXecs IP PBX effort aims at providing a fully capable open source unified communications solution for the mid-enterprise market. The mid-enterprise market ranges from a few users to several thousand users, possibly located in different buildings, cities, or countries.

sipXecs wiki organization

• sipxecs: Project level documentation - how the project is run, our license, links to other projects, who the people are, etc.
• User Docs: User documentation not tied to a particular version - general concept documentation for IP, VoIP, networking advice, links to compatible products and services...
  • Version 4.2 User Docs: User documentation on the current production-quality release: 4.2
  • Version 4.0 User Docs: User documentation on release: 4.0
• Developer Docs: internal design documentation for developers and the terminally curious.

• Old Wiki: content ported from the old wiki but not yet moved to into the new organization (some of this is incorrect or obsolete)

Read And Participate

Mailing Lists: [sipX-users|https://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users], [Archive|http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/], [Gmane|http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.telephony.pbx.sipfoundry.general]

Mailing Lists: [sipX-dev|https://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev], [Archive|http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/], [Gmane|http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.voip.sipx.devel]

Mailing Lists: [sipXecs-commit|https://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipxecs-commit], [Archive|http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipxecs-commit/]

[Create a sipfoundry account|http://track.sipfoundry.org/secure/Signup!default.jspa] the same account works for all the tools at sipfoundry.org

Bug & Issue Tracker: [SIPfoundry Issue Tracker|http://track.sipfoundry.org/] ... but before reporting an issue, see [How to report a problem with sipXecs|sipXecs:How to report a problem or request a feature]

Useful Links: [Useful Links|sipXecs:Useful Links]
IRC Channel: you can find some of the developers and users on irc, [#sipx on irc.freenode.net|irc://irc.freenode.net/sipx]. Here is a [list of IRC Clients{+}|http://www.irc.org/links.html]+, if you don't have one already.