FreePBX
What's New in FreePBX 14?
Provisioning Made Easy with Sangoma IP Phones
Zulu UC
Sangoma/FreePBX at ITEXPO West, 2015
FreePBX Open Telephony Training Seminar (OTTS)
Out-of-Box Activation
FreePBX: An Overview
Installing FreePBX Official Distro
Registering Your FreePBX System
Schmooze & CounterPath Partner to Bring Mobility to the Enterprise
WEBINAR: FreePBX Hosting in the Datacenter
How to Open Feature Requests & Bug Tickets
How to Update the FreePBX Distro
FreePBX High Availability
The DAHDI Module
Registering Your PBX
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What's New in FreePBX 14?
With FreePBX 15 on the horizon, discover everything new inside FreePBX 14 available now. Improvements & features include a new operating system bringing increased performance, automatic security updates, upgrading now built into the web GUI, timezone and language improvements for even better world-wide support, calendar integration and a redesigned User Control Panel (UCP) for an amazing user experience. Download FreePBX 14 today! -
Provisioning Made Easy with Sangoma IP Phones
Meet Jim. Jim manages his company's IT Department and phone system with FreePBX, the world's most prevalent open-source PBX system.
Jim also takes advantage of Sangoma's Zero-touch Provisioning with the EndPoint Manager module and Sangoma's IP Phones. It makes set up incredibly easy!
Now, give this video a watch and discover how FreePBX and Sangoma IP Phones work so seamlessly together.
And visit us online today to discover how you and your company can save valuable time by connecting Sangoma IP phones to your FreePBX or PBXact UC system!
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Zulu UC
Introducing Zulu UC…Outlook and Browser integration for FreePBX and PBXact!
This integration was built from the ground up by the same team behind the world's most popular PBX, FreePBX.
Now you can take your office with you where you go with the feature-rich Zulu UC Softphone. Send & receive SMS and fax, control your presence and much more all from your desktop.
Zulu UC enables powerful features like, Click-to-Call, URL Pops and SMS & Fax capabilities within applications people like you use everyday including Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
Click View More for additional information or visit the Store tab in your FreePBX Portal to get your hands on Zulu UC today !
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Sangoma/FreePBX at ITEXPO West, 2015
Come visit the Sangoma/FreePBX team at booth 601 during ITEXPO West in Anaheim, CA October 5-8, 2015.
Click View More to get your free pass for the event!
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FreePBX Open Telephony Training Seminar (OTTS)
OTTS is a 4-day training seminar where you’ll discover how to market, sell, deploy, troubleshoot, customize and administer Asterisk/FreePBX solutions.
This course is perfect for admins, resellers and really anyone who wants to get a deep understanding of FreePBX and the different components that make up the overall FreePBX EcoSystem.
Expand your FreePBX knowledge and register for an OTTS class today!
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Out-of-Box Activation
The out-of-box experience makes it even easier for you to activate your system after FreePBX installation. You’re done in minutes!
Activation is highly recommended, as it’s required to purchase Commercial Modules, Paid Support and SIPStation Trunking as well as take part in free trials and special offers. Watch this video and discover just how easy it is!
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FreePBX: An Overview
FreePBX is a VoIP phone system that has become the most widely deployed Open Source PBX platform in use across the world today. With over 1 million active production systems, end users ranging from small businesses to large enterprises rely on FreePBX.
Along with the FreePBX Distro, an entire ecosystem has flourished allowing users, resellers, enthusiasts and partners to build robust communications solutions that are powerful but at the same time easy to implement and support.
Download your free install of the Distro today and join the growing community of FreePBX users.
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Installing FreePBX Official Distro
FreePBX is relied on to run over half a million phone systems, and has been downloaded over 5 million times. If you are new to FreePBX you can get started quickly by downloading and installing the FreePBX Distro. The FreePBX Distro is an all in one platform that installs everything you need to build a phone system. Once You have a basic PBX in place you can add Commercial modules to add advanced features to an already feature rich base install of FreePBX.
The easiest way to install FreePBX is to download one of our ISO versions, burn it to a CD and then boot up your system from that disk. Your system will then reformat the disk and upon completion, you will have a fully functioning FreePBX Distro ready to configure your phones and trunks.
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Registering Your FreePBX System
Registration has changed slightly for those using SysAdmin version 12.0.19 or newer.
If this is you, then you're in luck! This video will show you step-by-step how to register your FreePBX system. A task necessary to purchase commercial modules and other software in the portal.
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Schmooze & CounterPath Partner to Bring Mobility to the Enterprise
Schmooze/FreePBX has teamed up with CounterPath, a leading developer of Unified Communications products and solutions, to enable easy deployment of softphone clients within enterprise and small business organizations.
The integration between FreePBX and CounterPath’s Bria Cloud Solutions means you and your employees can now communicate on any device, at any time, from any location.
Watch this video to see what this partnership can do for you and your company. Click the View More button for detailed instructions on how to purchase Bria Cloud Solutions and connect it with your FreePBX system through the Admin GUI.
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WEBINAR: FreePBX Hosting in the Datacenter
Cyberlynk runs FreePBXhosting.com, which is the first hosting provider certified by FreePBX and approved by Sangoma
In this webinar, join Adam Hobach, President of Cyberlynk Network, and Preston McNair, VP of Sales and Marketing for Schmooze, as they help you get the most out of your hosted FreePBX.
You’ll also discover an overview of the services and options offered by FreePBXhosting.com, which includes topics like package pricing, server hardware, networking and support.
Click View More for additional information
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How to Open Feature Requests & Bug Tickets
Think you found a bug or want to request a new feature? Well you’ve come to the right place!
Watch this video and discover how easy it is to open feature requests and bug tickets.
Click the “Bug & Feature Request” button on FreePBX.org to make your request today.
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How to Update the FreePBX Distro
Running FreePBX Distro updates is easy, and it can be done in one of two ways... through your CLI or with the System Admin module in your GUI.
Once you’ve upgraded your system, the FreePBX Distro has some additional built in features to change the major Asterisk version you are using.
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FreePBX High Availability
FreePBX High Availability or "FreePBX HA" is a commercially developed, High Availability solution that has reworked the FreePBX platform to integrate DRBD, Cluster Manager and Pacemaker. This enables automatic mirroring and failover between two FreePBX systems.
It was created to fill a need for organizations that have a low tolerance for downtime in the event of system failures and outages. Traditional backup solutions like onsite or offsite backups and warm spares are adequate, but when days, hours or even minutes of downtime just don’t cut it...FreePBX HA is now available!
To purchase licenses of FreePBX High Availability, log in to your FreePBX Portal account and visit the “Store” tab. You’re then just a few clicks away from starting the only hassle-free, High Availability solution for your business!
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The DAHDI Module
DAHDI, or Digium Asterisk Hardware Device Interface, is the interface that connects your PBX to your PSTN using Analog, T1/E1/PRI or BRI’s.
This module is designed to let you configure and manage your DAHDI PSTN cards. We only recommend using Certified Partner products such as Sangoma or Digium.
Digital Cards: 1:10
Analog Cards: 2:46
Global Settings: 4:53
System Settings: 5:30
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Registering Your PBX
You've just installed FreePBX....what's next?
This video will cover all the steps to create a free Schmooze Portal account, register and license deployments to your FreePBX system and purchase and install commercial modules.
FreePBX World 2015
FreePBX World 2015: Recap
Channel Partner Programs & Products Overview
FreePBX High Availability
All About Hardware
FreePBX Phone Apps
SIPStation, Eliminate Traditional Phone Service
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX en el Mercado de Habla Hispana (Español)
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX Roadmap - Where We've Been and Where We're Going
User Control Panel (UCP)
FreePBX World 2015: SBCs - What are they and why do you need one?
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX for the Global Audience
FreePBX World 2015: What's New in FreePBX 13
FreePBX Certified Add-ons
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX Hosting and Pitfalls Virtualization Providers Should Keep in Mind
Trans World Radio Case Study
FreePBX World 2015: Developers Roundtable
Hands Off the Receptionist!
FreePBX World 2015: Using the FreePBX EndPoint Manager
How to Become the Next Great VoIP Provider
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FreePBX World 2015: Recap
Thanks to all who attended FreePBX World 2015! It was great catching up with old faces and meeting new partners.
Couldn't make it out to AstriCon this year? No worries...watch some of the highlights in this short 1-minute video!
On behalf of the entire Sangoma team, we appreciate your continued support of the FreePBX Project!
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Channel Partner Programs & Products Overview
With close to two million active production systems in over 210 countries and territories across the planet, FreePBX attracts lots of attention from people wanting to get in on the action. We have designed our Partner Programs to be as open and customizable to your business needs as possible. Whatever your classification, OEM, VAR, Reseller, Agent, System Integrator or "the IT/phone person" this program has options to fit your needs. -
FreePBX High Availability
FreePBX HA is a commercially developed High Availability solution that enables automatic mirroring and failover between two FreePBX systems. It was created to fill a need for organizations that have a low tolerance for downtime in the event of system failures and outages. In this interactive discussion, Tony reviews how it works, and provides a live demonstration of FreePBX HA in action. FreePBX HA recently was awarded the Best Large Enterprise Application at ITEXPO Miami. -
All About Hardware
Great software deserves to be run on great hardware. Extend the power of the world’s most popular open source PBX by using hardware that is certified by the FreePBX Project. In this presentation, Preston provides an overview of how you can get the most out of your FreePBX installs by using FreePBX certified hardware, including appliances, SBC’s, gateways and multiple types of endpoints. -
FreePBX Phone Apps
FreePBX Phone Apps are a suite of IP phone applications that integrate directly with FreePBX and are compatible with devices from several popular manufacturers. These onscreen applications allow users to control functions and settings directly from their phones using apps such as Voicemail, Call Parking, FollowMe Management, Do Not Disturb and Conference Room Management. This session will feature a live demo of several FreePBX Phone Apps using Digium IP Phones, as well as highlight some of the upcoming new apps under development. -
SIPStation, Eliminate Traditional Phone Service
With SIPStation Unlimited SIP Trunks, you can be making calls from your PBX in just a few minutes. No contracts, no fuss. And when combined with the free SIPStation module, you have an easy and almost completely automatic method of setting up premium SIP Trunks on your FreePBX system. In this presentation, Tony gives an overview of the service as well as highlights of the included features. -
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX en el Mercado de Habla Hispana (Español)
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FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX Roadmap - Where We've Been and Where We're Going
Discover how FreePBX grew from just an easy way to write config files for Asterisk, to the most widely adopted Open Source PBX Platform and EcoSystem in the world. In this presentation, Philippe provides a FreePBX overview, a look back at our history and gives a sneak peak at what’s to come. -
User Control Panel (UCP)
The User Control Panel (UCP) is a replacement for the aging ARI module in FreePBX starting with FreePBX 12. In this presentation, Tony provides an overview of UCP as well as gives a walk through of all the sections, including SMS, WebRTC and other features. -
FreePBX World 2015: SBCs - What are they and why do you need one?
Session Border Controllers (SBC) are a critical component in any VoIP/UC network. They address key issues around security, remote workers, firewalls, transcoding and SIP interoperability. In this session, Scott will cover the basics of what makes up an SBC, along with how and when they should be used. -
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX for the Global Audience
Together Andrew and Kevin discuss delivering FreePBX to a global audience. Inside their presentation they talk about the challenges of managing simple and complex languages through a single unified platform, as well as database localization. They also highlight how language sound prompts were added through a new module called “Sound Prompts,” which allows users to download and manage language pages. -
FreePBX World 2015: What's New in FreePBX 13
FreePBX 13 takes off on many of the technologies and experiences that were introduced in FreePBX 12 where an all new mobile friendly User Control Panel (UCP) was introduced based off of Twitter’s bootstrap framework along with a myriad of other enhancements spanning from Asterisk’s PJSIP support to HTML5 voicemail playback and recording to secure module signing. In this presentation, Andrew will highlight the new features in FreePBX 13, including the new grid layout, improved navigation, search box ability and much more! -
FreePBX Certified Add-ons
Preston provides an in-depth overview of FreePBX add-ons and commercial modules available to enhance a base install of FreePBX. Sangoma's FreePBX Commercial Applications integrate directly with FreePBX and provide end users and integrators enhanced capabilities to the already feature-rich FreePBX platform. All of this is backed by a dedicated development team and the protections available with traditional commercial software. -
FreePBX World 2015: FreePBX Hosting and Pitfalls Virtualization Providers Should Keep in Mind
In this presentation, Adam discusses traditional hosting/VoIP business models in the hosting industry. It includes topics like package pricing, server hardware, networking, support, experience with hosting VoIP services and the potential pitfalls if not done correctly. Adam's company, Cyberlynk, is the first company to be certified by the FreePBX Project. FreePBXhosting.com takes a new approach to hosting VoIP services which include FreePBX VPS's, Dedicated Servers and High Availability solutions. -
Trans World Radio Case Study
In 2010 Trans World Radio (TWR), a global nonprofit media ministry, began replacing its mélange of proprietary PBX systems with Asterisk and FreePBX. Since then the primary challenge has been maintaining and updating/upgrading the distributed systems over 16 time zones. This session is of interest to anyone maintaining a multi-site deployment of Asterisk, especially on a limited budget, and how to choose the distribution (build from source, FreePBX) for ease of maintenance. Successful FreePBX appliance installs now include: Bratislava, the Netherlands Guam and Swaziland. -
FreePBX World 2015: Developers Roundtable
Attendees of FreePBX World 2015 had the opportunity to get their questions answered by our FreePBX Development Team in this interactive, open discussion. -
Hands Off the Receptionist!
Join in the fun with Allison as she covers the reasons why the “shortcut” of getting someone in-house to do your voice prompts will end up costing you more time and money in the end. She also highlights the process of ordering Professional Voice Prompts, voiced by Allison herself, inside the FreePBX Portal store. -
FreePBX World 2015: Using the FreePBX EndPoint Manager
The FreePBX EndPoint Manager can auto provision and configure directly from the GUI interface, wireless phones, door phones, paging devices, gateways and specialty devices. Luke provides an in-depth view of managing devices including, using Basefile Editor to change settings not exposed in the GUI to fully customize your config files. -
How to Become the Next Great VoIP Provider
Join Jared Smith, the Director of Open Source Outreach at Bluehost, as he discusses How to Become the Next Great VoIP Provider.
FreePBX World 2014
FreePBX® Localization & Translation for a Global Audience
FreePBX World: Keynote
Allison Smith Interview
Adam Hobach Interview
Billy Chia Interview
What's New in FreePBX® 12
Frederic Dickey Interview
15 Commandments of IVR
Scott Holtzman Interview
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FreePBX® Localization & Translation for a Global Audience
Kevin McCoy works in R&D at QLOOG, a VoIP services provider based out of Kobe, Japan. QLOOG actively supports development that enhances FreePBX's® localization and Internationalization capabilities, and works in close partnership with Schmooze Developers in squashing bugs and ensuring compatibility with non-English languages.
In this video, you will see Kevin's FreePBX® Localization & Translation for a Global Audience presentation from FreePBX® World 2014 in Las Vegas. Watch him overview the strategy for bringing accessible crowdsourcing translation to FreePBX®, creative challenges that need to be overcome in software localization, and why the open source codebase of FreePBX® gives us a definitive edge over closed solutions that struggle with diverse needs of a global audience.
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FreePBX World: Keynote
August 12, 2014 - ITEXPO Las Vegas
Open source communications platforms powered by FreePBX® and Asterisk® have been under continuous development for over 10 years. Today they account for millions of installations worldwide, contributing billions of dollars in hardware, software and services sales.
During this keynote presentation, Asterisk creator Mark Spencer, FreePBX Project Lead Philippe Lindheimer and The IVR Voice's Allison Smith will tell the tale of how open source telephony grew from the "necessity of a cash strapped young entrepreneur's need for a phone system" to today's billion dollar game changer.
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Allison Smith Interview
Allison, the voice of Asterisk®, is an internationally recognized voice talent whose voice is pre-installed in the FreePBX Distro, providing all the basic stock prompts for voicemail and IVRs. She has recently partnered with Sangoma and FreePBX to provide you with professional voice recordings for your PBX.
We caught up with her at FreePBX World in Las Vegas to ask her a few questions about voicing telephone systems and her partnership with Sangoma/FreePBX.
To order voice prompts, voiced by Allison Smith, create a Free Sangoma Portal account or log in and visit the Store tab. From there click on "Voice Prompts" and select the package that is right for you.
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Adam Hobach Interview
Adam Hobach is the President of Cyberlynk Network, Inc., which is a family of companies that has been in business since 1995.
FreePBXhosting.com is the first FreePBX hosting provider approved by Sangoma!
We caught up with Adam at FreePBX World in Las Vegas to discover more about FreePBXhosting.com and his close-knit partnership with Sangoma/FreePBX®.
For more information about FreePBX hosting click the View More button.
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Billy Chia Interview
Billy Chia is the Marketing Manager for Digium, Inc., the primary sponsor and maintainer of Asterisk. Billy is responsible for its Custom Communications product lines including Asterisk, IP Phones, VoIP Gateways and Telephony Interface Cards.
We caught up with Billy at FreePBX World in Las Vegas to discover more about WebRTC, Phone Apps and how Digium products interact with the FreePBX® EcoSystem.
For more information on Phone Apps click the View More button.
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What's New in FreePBX® 12
FreePBX® 12 is a significant leap forward, providing huge internal upgrades, improved functionality and new features for years to come.
In this video, Andrew Nagy (Software Developer for Sangoma/FreePBX®), explains What's New in FreePBX® 12 during his presentation at FreePBX® World in Las Vegas.
Install or upgrade your version of FreePBX® 12 today!
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Frederic Dickey Interview
Sangoma is a leading provider of hardware and software components that enable or enhance IP Communications Systems for both telecom and datacom applications.
Frederic Dickey is the VP of Product Management and Customer Services for Sangoma and we met up with him at FreePBX World in Las Vegas to discover more about their new products and how they interact with the FreePBX® EcoSystem.
To purchase Sangoma Cards from the Sangoma Portal, signup or login and visit the Store tab!
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15 Commandments of IVR
Allison, the voice of Asterisk®, is an internationally recognized voice talent whose voice is pre-installed in the FreePBX Distro, providing all the basic stock prompts for voicemail and IVRs.
During her 15 Commandments of IVR presentation at FreePBX World in Las Vegas she discusses her observations of IVR systems from her unique vantage point - from behind the mic, as one of the world's most prevalent telephone voices. Watch and find out if telephone systems are becoming more intuitive; easier to use; and less frustrating for callers to navigate.
Allison has recently partnered with Sangoma and FreePBX to provide you with professional voice recordings for your PBX. To order voice prompts, voiced by Allison Smith, create a Free Sangoma Portal account or log in and visit the Store tab. From there click on "Voice Prompts" and select the package that is right for you.
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Scott Holtzman Interview
Scott Holtzman is the Chief Technology Officer and Networking Expert with Micro Advantage Inc, a firm specializing in the deployment and maintenance of thousands of lines of service utilizing Open Source telephone systems based on FreePBX®.
We met up with Scott at FreePBX® World in Las Vegas to talk about Micro Advantage, FreePBX® 12 and his relationship with Sangoma/FreePBX®.
