Phones & Gateways

Interoperability and Plug & Play Management

The Phone & Gateway Interoperability Portal offers information regarding a phone's compatibility with sipX. Some phones are tested better than others. Polycom, Snom and Grandstream phones are known to work well. Also Linksys / Sipura phones are good, although not plug & play managed.

For Developers there is an automated phone interoperability test service that is based on sipXecs.

Howto Manage Additional Phones & Gateways Through The sipXecs IP PBX Configuration Server: sipX ConfigServer provides an XML-based plugin framework that allows adding support for additional phones and gateways easily. Essentially a phone or gateway's configuration parameters are captured in an XML file based on which sipXconfig will automatically render a Web user interface that allows that phone or gateway to be configured remotely. Interested? Read on...

• Adding support for managed phones
• Adding support for managed gateways
• Adding support for firmware updates

Hard Phones

Plug & Play? It means that a phone is integrated into sipXconfig and you therefore do not have to use the phone's key pad or integrated Web server to configure it. Getting a phone up and running with a default configuration is as simple as entering its MAC address into sipXconfig, assign a user (line) and generate a profile. Now plug in the phone and as it comes up it will pick up its profile from the sipX server.

Plug & Play Managed:

• Polycom SoundPoint & SoundStation Phones
• LG-Nortel SIP Phones
• SNOM SIP Phones
• Grandstream SIP Phones
• Cisco SIP 79xx Phones
• Linksys SPA Phones

Manually Configured:

• ACT SIP Phone
• Sipura / Linksys SIP Phones
• ZyXEL Prestige WiFi SIP Phone
• Linksys WIP 330 WiFi SIP Phone
• Snom M3 Wireless SIP Dect Phone
• Pingtel xpressa Phone

Softphones

• KDE kphone
• Counterpath Bria Professional Phones
• Counterpath (Xten) X-Lite & eyeBeam Phones
• SNOM 360 Softphone
• Windows Messenger
• LinPhone
• SJPhone
• sipXphone
• ekigaphone
• OpenWengo

Gateways

Configure analog Gateways (FXS):

• Grandstream HandyTone (FXS)
• Cisco ATA-188/186 (FXS)
• HowTo configure Linksys/Sipura Gateways (FXS)

Configure PSTN via a SIP Trunk: There are many providers that offer access to the PSTN as a service over the Internet, to use one you must know...

• HowTo configure a SIP Trunk

Configure PSTN Gateways (FXO):

• HowTo configure SIP gateways to work with sipX
• Overview: FXO/FXS SIP gateways
• Audiocodes SIP-PSTN gateways
• Cisco SIP-PSTN gateways
• Cisco SIP-ISDN gateways
• Mediatrix PSTN gateways
• Nortel SR2330 SIP-PSTN gateway
• Patton SmartNode PSTN gateways
• Vegastream PSTN gateways