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Ip Pbx System, 3CX - any good?
Q. An IT friend of mine gave me the cover disk from a magazine he received, and on it is 3CX Phone System 3, which claims to be "Complete phone PBX in software!". Does anybody - preferably with experience of this piece of software - know if this is any good?
A. Can't comment on the actual software but the idea behind it is that rather than using VoIP phones connected to an outside provider, such as Sipgate, you connect to an internal server that you run yourself. Unless you are planning on running a reasonable sized IP based PBX then it won't do anything more than a decent specced IP office (Grandstream 2000, or 2020 spring to mind) phone and a couple of free VoIP accounts, apart from require more hardware. Does anybody know if this 3CX software could be used to provide a similar service (on a personal and a few friends basis) to that provided by Voxalot? I imagine it would need to be able to provide SIP registrar / redirect / and proxy server facilities to do as required above. 3CX is a closed-source PBX system which runs under Windows. There is a free version with user/community support (via forums) and a paid-for version with (I guess) support from the company. Asterisk is open-source which runs under Linux (and Solaris) Lots of support from digium (the primary sponsors) and the communiuty via forums/mailling lists, etc. as well as various people who'll sell you support. Either 3CX or Asterisk ought to be able to do what you require - if you run them on a suitable PC at home. You then create your own closed VoIP system, and with Asterisk, you could certianly take their local SIP providers details and register the * box with them, to allow them to call-through to their own provider as well as calling the other local users, although you'd need to be careful to not let other users use other users SIP providers (and thus run up charges to the wrong person!) And everyone would need to trust you with their SIP username & passwords for their own providers - trust you to not abuse them and run up their bills, etc.
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