"Lurch" <myrealname@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote in message
news:nmj1c35sqfrbokalkl29glbu2cdkfiai5r@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:35:31 +0100, "Henry Hooray"
> <yri6tus02@sneakeLEAVETHISOUTmail.com> mused:
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> >An IT friend of mine gave me the cover disk from a magazine he received,[/color][/color]
and[color=blue][color=green]
> >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 -[/color][/color]
know[color=blue][color=green]
> >if this is any good?
> >[/color]
> 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.
>
> All AFAIAA IMO anyway.[/color]

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.

Rob