Office IP PBX AllVoIP AV80404-IPPBX - review and testing

Introduction

Four conventional PBX pass with frightful rapidity. In order to make such a conclusion, it suffices to find a brief list of possible IP-PBX: digital technologies and the development of network infrastructure allows them to push the traditional devices on all fronts. Not only is a cheap and reliable communication, based on the protocol IP, can reduce the use of traditional telephony, if not totally abandon it. Now become habitual and, therefore, needed, and additional features that were previously and did not exist. It may also simplify the cabling infrastructure office, which is also important. In general, the reasons for which we propose to draw attention to the PBX AllVoIP AV80404 - abound. Let's see whether they are real.
The appearance, specifications and equipment

Packaging equipment and PBX AllVoIP AV80404 - rather modest, in a small brown box are:
Itself ATS AllVoIP AV80404
Power supply from 220V
CD-ROM with User Manual
SD Memory Card 2 GB



ATC is very compact, metal body can be placed anywhere, as long as it is convenient to connect the power supply, network interface and analog telephone lines (up to 4 for the model AllVoIP AV80404).



The front side contains only 10 LED indicators, which reflect the presence of connections for each of the available ports, as well as the presence of food. In general, the role of the front side can claim another distinction device, the one on which the connectors.



Results of this ATS provides 4 slots for telephone lines, plug USB, memory card slot MMC / SD, couple of network ports and power supply connector. Near the latter is recessed deep into the reset button, the values are very useful in case something goes wrong with the setup, access to the menu would be impossible and will have to go back to the factory settings, including the administrator password.

General, hardware PBX AllVoIP AV80404, as well as other similar devices, is only a necessary repository for software features, which kind of interesting. Before moving to a more detailed acquaintance with the possibilities of setting up and running, a short list of key characteristics AllVoIP AV80404:
Contains a SIP / IAX Server
Supports the following connection types: static IP, dynamic
IP, PPPoE.
Support codecs: G.711-Ulaw, G.711-Alaw, G.726, G.729, GSM, SPEEX
Supports connection both with VoIP, and with the analog network.
Supports T.38 fax protocol
Contains the voice mail server
Contains server conferences
Contains server voice menus
Music on hold, call
Maintain call statistics
Supports up to 30 simultaneous calls
Basic functions:
Making call
Call forwarding (when the number is busy, not responding or physically unavailable)
Call Hold
Call Transfer
Call Waiting
4 port FXO and FXS.
Support SIP, H.323.
Graphical web-interface.
Interactive voice menu (IVR).
Making a conference call.
Voice mail.
Function Call Back.
Statistics.
The platform Asterisk.
2 x RJ45 10/100: LAN + WAN.
4-port RJ11.
Card slot MMC / SD.
Port USB2.0.
32-bit internal digital signal processor (DSP)
Four analog FXS-200/FXO-200 module
256 megabytes of flash memory
64 megabytes of RAM
uClinux 2.6.X
Dimensions 237h120h36 mm
Weight - 1,5 kg
Power supply 100 ~ 240V AC +12 V DC, 2A

The main purpose of this platform - providing a telephone (voice) communication in small organizations through the network infrastructure. This PBX can register up to 30 users, each of whom will have access to all the functions necessary for communications in the modern office. AllVoIP AV80404 allows you to control the VoIP traffic control connections are connected SIP-devices (gateways, IP-phones, including software , SIP-adapters), to realize the conference and IVR, as well as to integrate into the system up to 4 urban lines through the ports of FXO.

What is noteworthy - this is an opportunity to unite into a single geographically separated offices, communication between staff members located in different parts of the country is carried out as easily as if they were sitting in adjacent rooms, and remote users can receive and access to urban lines of the head office .

Perhaps, the wealth of opportunities and benefits AllVoIP AV80404 not cause the slightest doubt, it remains to understand how realistic all this arsenal to use: an inexperienced user such a system may seem complicated, but in reality, all management is carried out through a convenient and intuitive Web interface, which will describe in detail.
Configuration, management and use AllVoIP AV80404

For a start, to gain access to management, you need to connect IP-PBX AllVoIP AV80404 to the local network. Note that by default, this device is assigned IP-address 192.168.1.100 (port WAN), so that it is desirable that at the time of the first connection of the address was available. In passing on it in the browser the user sees the login prompt in the system. Enter your login and password, the default (specified in the user manual), we see the main menu IPPBX AllVoIP AV80404:



The ideology of the menu is simple and visual, in the left column - paragraphs and subparagraphs of the menu system AllVoIP AV80404, a wide central column - the content selected at this time point in the right column - help for the moment.

In the section "Numbers" can be set or edit the list of internal numbers, to indicate what the user what number belongs to, set a password for access to the most number (you can change jobs, but keep the same number), and voice mail, set the dialing rules and relevant the user analog phone line, if any. It also indicates which services and protocols should be available number.

On the next page, the corresponding item "Channels" can be done setting the parameters of external connections, PSTN or VoIP, to the appropriate service provider providing services to office.