Provisioning extensions in a simple way

To check if our extensions are correctly configured, we will set up a softphone (a software emulation for a phone) called Zoiper that supports the IAX2 protocol. This software can be downloaded from http://www.zoiper.com/. We will also use an SIP IP phone. In this case, we will use model 6739i from Aastra.

Most of the time when configuring any IP device, we need to know the following parameters:

  • Extension Number or SIP Authorization Name or SIP User
  • Password
  • IP address or host to which our device will register SIP Port, generally port 5060 in TCP/UDP

How to do it…

  1. To configure our softphone, we will introduce the following values to the corresponding parameters or fields as follows:

    Username: 7004

    Caller ID Name ...

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