How to install OpenVBX by Twilio on any webhosting server [Video Tutorial]

What is OpenVBX?

OpenVBX is a web-based open source tool to create phone systems for enterprises. In some sense, OpenVBX is a front end for Twilio’s APIs. OpenVBX extends Twilio’s API by providing a user interface and other primitives like voicemail that build upon Twilio’s core API stack. OpenVBX comes with applets for auto-attendants, call forwarding, voicemails (with transcription), receiving text messages and more. The video provides the genesis behind OpenVBX.

In a short span of 2 years, Twilio has introduced some very cool products. At its core, Twilio provides web-based APIs enabling businesses to build scalable communication applications using the cloud that can make and receive phone calls and text messages (SMS). Today we are going to talk about Twilio’s latest offering – OpenVBX.

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How-to setup SIP accounts in X-Lite or other SIP phone [Tutorial]

To setup your SIP account in x-lite, just right click anywhere on the x-lite window and select “SIP Account Settings…” and you will be presented with:

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Grandstream HandyTone HT-386

Summary: The HandyTone 386 from Grandstream Networks offers all of the great features of the HT-286 and adds an additional Voice/Fax port plus PSTN Pass through. Also new is support for T-38 fax and 3-way calling. The HandyTone line of VoIP adapters lead the industry in functionality and ease-of-use and offer unsurpassedvalue.

Features:

• Full Feature Voice/Fax-over-IP
• Ultra-Compact and Lightweight
• Universal Plug and Dial

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Grandstream HT- 488

Grandstream Handytone HT488 is a next generation VOIP adapter based on SIP standards. This device has 2 RJ45 (LAN/WAN) ports and features an integrated router with NAT and DHCP functions. More important, beside these 2 ports, HT-488 adaptor integrates an FXS port which can be connected to any dect phone / central and a port which can be connected to the classical telephony provider (RDS/ROMTELECOM).

In the VOIP devices page you can find the VOIP applications which can be replaced by this device. Asterisk Guru Tutorial

Using this device has more advangates:

• eliminates the necessity of using a computer for making VOIP calls

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GrandStream HandyTone 502 (HT502) Analog Telephone Adaptor

The HT502 is a powerful VoIP router. The product's inclusion of an integrated high performance NAT router and 10Mbps Ethernet WAN and LAN ports enables a shared broadband connection between multiple ethernet devices. In addition to being SIP 2.0 standard compliant, the product supports Universal Plug-in-Play (UPnP), up to 2 SIP account profiles, and advanced telephony features.

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Grandstream Handytone HT-286 Setup Guide

Get Started:

Self Install via Phone Prompts

1.)Confirm that the power is plugged into the adapter and delivering power.

2.)Connect a standard analog phone into Phone Port 1

3.)Choose IP Settings:

Select voice menu option 01 to enable HT286 to use DHCP.

Select voice menu option 01 to enable HT286 to use STATIC IP mode, then use option 02, 03, 04, 05 to set up IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway and DNS server respectively.

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SIP Communicator

SIP Communicator - the Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client.

SIP Communicator is an audio/video Internet phone and instant messenger that supports some of the most popular VoIP and instant messaging protocols such as SIP, Jabber, AIM/ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, Bonjour and a whole lot of other useful features.

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HandyTone 286 (HT286) Analog Telephone Adaptor

Grandstream’s HandyTone 286 is a next generation, cost effective solution for consumers looking to transition from traditional analog telephone devices to the savings and benefits of an IP telephony network. 

The product interfaces legacy analog telephones, fax machines, analog conference telephones and other analog devices to IP based telephony networks.

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VoIP over Phone Wiring

I have no complaints about my Vonage experience so far. The call quality is great. Getting voice mail messages in my email is a dream come true (if you leave one, I may actually listen to it now). I can send faxes using a traditional fax machine. I'm able to place calls using a 900 MHz cordless phone (I don't use 2.4 MHz because it interferes with my WiFi) or any other standard landline phone. The only thing that had me a little perplexed was how I could easily connect several phones the way I would in a normal landline configuration.

I had a revelation during a trip to the drugstore a few blocks from my house. The phone wiring in the house could be terminated at my Linksys Phone Adapter the same way the phone company brings their lines to the house and ties in to all the internal wiring of the house. Both scenarios route all the wiring in the house back to a central office. The traditional landline service routes underground or to a pole along the street back to the CO while the VoIP method connects to my router headed for the servers at Vonage. This same concept should also work for other VoIP providers, although Vonage is the only one I tested.

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DVG-2001S VoIP Phone Adapter

This VoIP Phone Adapter converts your existing analog telephone into an IP Phone. This translates into big savings on your phone bill.

D-Link®, an industry leader in networking, introduces DVG-2001S VoIP Phone Adapter for the home environment. The DVG-2001S converts any existing analog (cord or cordless) telephone into an IP Phone. Also by plugging in a FAX machine, the DVG-2001S will enable users to send and receive fax the same way as a traditional analog telephone line.

The DVG-2001S supports the SIP protocol, which is widely deployed by VoIP providers on the market. It also supports the most popular audio CODECs to ensure compatibility and voice quality.

The DVG-2001S VoIP Phone Adapter comes with one FXS port to connect to the existing analog telephone and one Fast Ethernet port to connect to the broadband router.

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H.323 Plus

H.323 Plus (or, "H323plus") is the home for the open source H.323 development formerly known as OpenH323. The new name was chosen to reflect the fact that the open source H.323 project now contains even more more functionality than ever before.

H.323 is the leading protocol for videoconferencing, with virtually every videoconferencing solution in the world using H.323 in order to establish voice and video communication sessions. With its superior handling of video and conference control, no other protocol comes close to matching the capabilites of H.323 for video.

H.323 is also an extremely important protocol for the VoIP industry, with H.323 carrying nearly twice as much VoIP traffic in 2006 than all other VoIP protocols combined. While other protocols will increase in importance and new ones will come into the market every year, H.323 has firmly positioned itself in the market and continue so for many years.

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