[dba-Tech] 3CX phone system

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Jim

Yes, highly recommended. We've used it for the last two years, though running on Windows Server 2012 R2. In fact, it replaced our last Linux server running a Trixbox PBX based on Asterisk.

Indeed, if you operate in Europe, 3CX should be your first choice as it - contrary to Asterisk - truly understands European telcos and telephony standards. Besides, management is a breeze compared to the total mess of Asterisk and its derivations.

Further, if you grow out of the free version (1 trunk, 8 simultaneous calls), the system is in no way expensive.
However, open-source it isn't. It least I haven't seen anything stating this.

/gustav
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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 10. marts 2017 21:22:51
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: [dba-Tech] 3CX phone system

Hi All:

The 3CX Phone System is a boutique designed Linux distro for the sole purpose of managing an office phone system. It has a very small footprint, less than 512MB, counting extras and the databases, so the system can be added to a network via an older box or one with little resources...or even run from the Cloud. The distro has been around for a while but it was not until recently that I actually saw it installed and up and running...and I was very impressed. The local techs said that they had the system up and running in a morning and could mix the old and old equipment (telephones): https://www.3cx.com/

Quote:

3CX Phone System is a specialist, Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run a complete unified communications platform. The 3CX client, included in the distribution, can also be installed separately on most hardware as well as the Cloud. It provides a complete open standards-based IP PBX and phone system that works with popular SIP trunks and IP phones. It will automatically configure all supported peripherals and it also comes with clients for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The ISO image includes a free license for the 3CX PBX edition. The ISO images contain the standard Debian installer which installs a minimal system with the nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, iptables firewall and Secure Shell. Options not relevant to 3CX have been removed from the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (265MB):

http://downloads.3cx.com/downloads/3cxpbxiso/debian-8.6.0-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso
http://bit.ly/2mskxhw

In addition, this software, at least the client part, runs on all platforms (and even the Cloud), supports multiple languages, has online and phone support across North America and Europe (from the US to Russia...Africa to Australia) and forums, documents and so on...

https://www.3cx.com/phone-system/3CXPhoneSystem_brochure.pdf

As it is basically, for a base, small installation, free and open source anyone can download and play with it and find out it is right for your clients.

Jim