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VIDEO: Phone Provisioning

April 22, 2010 - 11:06 am | 0 Comments

Skills Covered by this Module Preparing an Extension for Provisioning Advantages of Provisioning through 3CX Management Console The different types of provisioning and what phones they work with Automatic Provisioning using DHCP Option 66 Relevant Course Materials Adjusting The Built-In Phone Provisioning Templates

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VIDEO: Provisioning Cisco SPA500 Series Phones with 3CX

February 12, 2010 - 2:17 pm | 1 Comments

Provisioning Cisco Linksys SPA 501,502, 504, 508 and 525 phones IP Phones with 3CX Phone System

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VIDEO: VAD-Creating a sample application Part 1 of 2

February 8, 2010 - 8:46 pm | 0 Comments

This YouTube video will explain step by step how to create a sample application. This first part shows how to design the main flow, while the second part shows how to design the error handler and the disconnect handler flows. Skills Covered by this Module Creating a new project Adding components to the callflow Creating a custom component to avoid spaghetti diagrams Adding input and output properties to the custom

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VIDEO: VAD – Creating a sample application Part 2 of 2

February 8, 2010 - 8:46 pm | 0 Comments

This YouTube video will explain step by step how to create a sample application. The first part showed how to design the main flow, while this second part shows how to design the error handler and the disconnect handler flows. Skills Covered by this Module Configuring the error handler: transferring to the operator on database error Configuring the disconnect handler: writing a CDR to database on call disconnection

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VIDEO: VAD – Built-in components Part 1 of 2

January 29, 2010 - 4:47 pm | 1 Comments

This YouTube video will explain what a built-in component is, and explain in detail out of the box call related components. Skills Covered by this Module What are built-in components? Concepts reused in many components: Input and output properties Types of properties Expressions Component templates: how does the VAD initialize components? Call related components Menu User Input Prompt Playback Record Transfer Disconnect Call Click here to view the second part

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VIDEO: VAD – Built-in components Part 2 of 2

January 29, 2010 - 4:42 pm | 1 Comments

This YouTube video will explain in detail control structures and advanced components. Skills Covered by this Module Control Structures components Conditional Variable Assignment Increment Variable Decrement Variable Loop Exit Callflow Advanced components Cryptography Database Access E-Mail Sender External Code Execution File Management Socket Client Web Interaction Web Services Interaction

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VIDEO: VAD – Introduction Part 1 of 2

January 25, 2010 - 5:00 pm | 0 Comments

This YouTube video will introduce you to the 3CX Voice Application Designer. It explains basic but important concepts to understand how it works and what can be done with it. To follow along with the tutorials, click here to download  the Visual Application Designer. Skills Covered by this Module What is 3CX Voice Application Designer? How does it work? Available editions compared Basic concepts: project, call flow, built-in component and

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VIDEO: VAD – Creating and deploying a voice application Part 2 of 2

January 25, 2010 - 4:45 pm | 1 Comments

This YouTube video will show you how to create, deploy and debug a voice application with the 3CX Voice Application Designer. Skills Covered by this Module Opening the “Simple Dialer” sample project Configuring your 3CX Phone System location Making some changes to the application Building the project: differences between debug and release mode explained Deploying the project in debug mode Making a call and debugging the callflow Click here to

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VIDEO: What’s new in 3CX Phone System v8

October 19, 2009 - 2:06 pm | 2 Comments

Presentation on the new features of 3CX Phone System version 8

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VIDEO: Configuring the 3CX Assistant

October 19, 2009 - 11:53 am | 0 Comments

Skills Covered by this Module Configuring 3CX Assistant to work with 3CX PhoneSystem

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VIDEO: 3CX Tunnel Protocol – with 3CX VoIP Phone and SIP Hardphones!

October 14, 2009 - 1:14 pm | 0 Comments

Skills Covered by this Module What is the 3CX Tunnel? What problems does the tunnel solve, and what functionality does the tunnel provide or facilitate? How to leverage the 3CX Tunnel features with the 3CX VoIP Phone Configuring the 3CX SIP Proxy Manager in a remote location Configuring a SIP Hardphone to use the 3CX Tunnel Protocol by pointing it to the 3CX SIP Proxy Manager machine. Relevant Course Materials

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VIDEO: Configuring 3CX VoIP Phone

October 6, 2009 - 10:24 am | 0 Comments

Skills Covered by this Module Setting up a new connection profile Configuration of 3CX VoIP Phone to work with 3CX PhoneSystem Introduction to Tunneled connections between 3CX VoIP Phone and 3CX PhoneSystem Relevant Course Materials SIP Proxy Tunnel & SIP Proxy Tunnel Manager

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VIDEO: Configuring a Polycom 320 Phone

October 3, 2009 - 10:29 am | 0 Comments

Skills Covered by this Module Configuring a Polycom 320 Phone to work with 3CX PhoneSystem

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VIDEO: What’s new in 3CX Phone System v7.1

April 27, 2009 - 1:33 pm | 0 Comments

Watch this Youtube video to find out about the new features in 3CX Phone System v7.1.

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VIDEO: Working with Patton VoIP Gateways (Part 3/3)

March 30, 2009 - 4:23 pm | 0 Comments

This is the last part on how to configure the Patton for use as a PSTN gateway for 3CX. Very detailed and highly recommended!

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VIDEO: 3CX Tunnel – Configuration (Part 2)

February 23, 2009 - 9:48 pm | 0 Comments

This VoIP Nugget explains in detail how to setup the tunnel server side. It then shows how to setup the 3CX VoIP Phone to connect from anywhere on the internet to 3CX Phone System.

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VIDEO: 3CX Tunnel – Overview (part 1)

February 17, 2009 - 4:11 pm | 0 Comments

This VoIP Nugget explains what the 3CX Tunnel is – and why it makes configuring external extensions and bridges easier. A second VoIP Nugget will be published that shows exactly how to configure the 3CX Tunnel with the new 3CX VoIP Phone.

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VIDEO: Configuring PSTN lines with a Patton Gateway (Part 2/3)

February 9, 2009 - 3:21 pm | 0 Comments

This VoIP nugget explains in detail how to setup a Patton Gateway with 3CX Phone System. It walks you through 3CX setup, hooking up the device to the network, connecting the PSTN lines and then uploading the automatically generated configuration file. Recommended for anyone wanting to connect PSTN lines to their VoIP Phone System.

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VIDEO: Using a Patton VoIP gateway with 3CX

January 26, 2009 - 4:36 pm | 0 Comments

This video has been developed by Marco Liechti of Patton and is the first of three part series about using VoIP gateways with 3CX. It explains why you need a VoIP Gateway and how it works. Recommended!

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VIDEO: How to setup external extensions using direct SIP

December 18, 2008 - 5:54 pm | 3 Comments

This nugget shows how to setup an external extension using direct SIP. Using the VoIP client as an example it walks you through the process of configuring extensions that reside outside your LAN.

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VIDEO: Firewalls & VoIP

December 4, 2008 - 10:08 pm | 0 Comments

NAT & Firewalls typically present some challenges to VoIP, however with a good understanding of what’s happening it’s possible to make VoIP calls work easily. And being able to have external extensions and bridges with remote offices is one of the cool features of VoIP. This VoIP nugget gives a high level introduction to the problems and what must be done.

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VIDEO: Introduction to SIP & RTP

November 26, 2008 - 9:56 pm | 1 Comments

This video is a high level overview to SIP & RTP – explains the basics of the protocols in a 4 minute video

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VIDEO: Understanding the 3CX Phone System server activity log

November 21, 2008 - 9:27 pm | 0 Comments

This video explains how to interpret the 3CX Phone System server status logs. This video walks you through the setup and tear down of a phone call, explaining the messages that are generated along the way. This video is an excellent way to learn how to use the server status logs to troubleshoot problems.

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VIDEO: Introduction to 3CX

November 18, 2008 - 5:24 pm | 0 Comments

This short presentation gives a brief introduction to 3CX and the VoIP market.

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VIDEO: SIP call setup overview & ports used

November 14, 2008 - 7:57 pm | 1 Comments

3CX is starting to publish a series of short technical VoIP videos which we have called VoIP Nuggets.

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