Managing your open source telecommunication needs has never been easier than with Rhino products. Ceros provides instant credibility to your Value Added Reseller (VAR) product line, by providing an unmarked PC chassis that is simply customized by editing a simple four line by 40 character text file. The text in the file is displayed on the LCD at all times for your customers to visually identify your own branded PBX product.
This Rhino Ceros includes a R8FXX base board which is configurably to several FXS and FXO combinations. A 2FXO and 2FXS module is included in this bundle.
TrixBox is a telephone system based on the popular open source Asterisk PBX (Private Branch eXchange) Software. TrixBox allows an individual or organization to setup a telephone system with traditional telephone networks as well as Internet based telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
Knowing that Rhino products are ready to perform right out of the box means that you can spend more time developing important customer relationships. Ceros comes preloaded with Linux and Asterisk, along with all the necessary configurations for the specific installed Rhino hardware. All that is needed is to customize extensions and other outside system environment configurations.
The Ceros chassis was designed with VARs in mind. The chassis comes with no external markings or silkscreening, and comes shipped in two cartons -- an outside carton that can be discarded so that a pristine, inside carton can be cleanly shipped to your end customer.
Rhino Equipment Corp. offers you a complete line of low cost PCI plug-in cards including Single T1/E1, Dual T1/E1, Quad T1/E1, Quad FXO analog, Octal FXS/FXO and 24-port analog mixed mode analog interfaces. And don?t forget the full line of Rhino Channel Bank products, for large scale analog FXS or FXO applications.
Rhino designed products are tough. In the rare case of trouble, our technical support staff is ready to give you the support you need, when you need it. Our 5-year, limited warranty means that you can be confident that Rhino will always work hard in your Open Source Telephony application.
* Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium
Features
- Rhino Ceros PBX Server - TrixBox soft PBX tested
- AMD AM2 3500+ Athlon CPU
- 80G SATA hard drive
- 512MB DDR2 memory
- 400W power supply
- Four PCIX slots, three PCI Express slots
- Rhino SLI 4-line LCD and 5-button keypad
- Video and keyboard ports
- Four USB ports, one firewire port, parallel and serial port, audio stack
- 10/100 integrated network
- Preloaded with Linux and Trixbox
- Rhino Analog PCI Card with 2FXS + 2FXO Interfaces Installed
- Accepts all Rhino PCI and PCI Express cards. Full length cards have special anchor brackets to fully secure cards in the chassis
- Fully tested and integrated with all required hardware
- 3U tall, 12.5 wide x 13.5 deep external dimensions
- Rubber bumper feet, or 19, 23 and wall mounting brackets
- Dual high reliability chassis fans
- Four line Rhino SLI, serial LCD and 5-button keypad
- No external monitor or keyboard required
- Double shipping box
- 5-year limited warranty
- TrixBox Made Easy: by Barry Dempster and Kerry Garrison - A step-by-step guide to installing and running your home and office VoIP system. With this recently published book, learn everything you need to know to deploy TrixBox in a production environment:
- Plan and configure your own VoIP and telephony systems
- Setup voicemail, conferencing, and call recording
- Clear and practical tutorial with case study format
Learn how to set up and use TrixBox (formally known as Asterisk@Home) as a traditional and Internet telephone system. The book is written in an easy to follow walk-through style, building up concepts step by step, before guiding you carefully through the planning, deployment, and management of your telephone system.
In Detail
TrixBox is a telephone system based on the popular open source Asterisk PBX (Private Branch eXchange) Software. TrixBox allows an individual or organization to setup a telephone system with traditional telephone networks as well as Internet based telephony or VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). SugarCRM can be integrated with Asterisk, and is bundled with Trixbox offering real power and flexibility.
The book begins by introducing telephony concepts before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature packed PBX.
This book is rich with practical examples and tools. It provides examples of well laid out telephone systems with accompanying spreadsheets to aid the reader in building stable telephony infrastructure.
What you will learn from this book
Chapter 1 introduces the essential telephony and IP telephony concepts to give the reader the necessary background.
Chapter 2 gives an overview of Asterisk the PBX software at the core of TrixBox and gives the reader a feel for the features of a powerful VoIP telephone system.
Chapter 3 explains the relationship between Asterisk and TrixBox and introduces the enhancements and power the combination of these tools provides.
Chapter 4 walks the user through planning a telephone system with accompanying spreadsheets to fill in, in order to properly plan for the installation and configuration of the system.
Chapter 5 gives the reader details on how to install TrixBox and how the basic administration components are used.
Chapter 6 applies the previous planning to the configuration of TrixBox to provide the features the reader requires from their telephone system.
Chapter 7 covers the telephone system from the point of view of the telephone handset and how the user of the telephone system can interact with it.
Chapter 8 looks at more advanced configuration options and differing types of telephone line that can be managed with TrixBox.
Chapter 9 briefly introduces the SugarCRM customer relationship management tool, integrated with TrixBox.
Chapter 10 shows the reader how to secure and backup TrixBox to ensure reliability of their system.
Appendix A has some acronyms and terms used throughout this book, which are also common terms in Telephony. This can be used as a quick reference to the terms when reading the book or configuring the TrixBox system
Approach
The book is incremental and structured in its approach. It starts by clearly describing the basics of PBX systems and of Asterisk itself, on which Trixbox is based. Then the book explains how TrixBox links to, and controls Asterisk. Once the core concepts are understood, the book carefully takes you through each stage of setting up and managing your VoIP system with an abundance of screenshots for easy implementation.
Who this book is written for?
Because the book covers the concepts and practices of both telephony and Asterisk, it is suitable for both professional and home users with no prior telecom experience. It?s ideal for any user wishing to set up a telephony system for individual or small business usage. No previous knowledge of Trixbox or networking is required, although some basic knowledge of PBX and Linux would be an advantage.
Author(s)
Barrie Dempster
Barrie Dempster is currently employed as a Senior Security Consultant for NGS Software Ltd a world-renowned security consultancy well known for their focus in enterprise-level application vulnerability research and database security. He has a background in Infrastructure and Information Security in a number of specialised environments such as financial services institutions, telecommunications companies, call centres, and other organisations across multiple continents. Barrie has experience in the integration of network infrastructure and telecommunications systems requiring high calibre secure design, testing and management. He has been involved in a variety of projects from the design and implementation of Internet banking systems to large-scale conferencing and telephony infrastructure, as well as penetration testing and other security assessments of business critical infrastructure.
Kerry Garrison
Kerry Garrison has been in the IT industry for over 20 years with positions ranging from IT Director of a large multi-site distribution company to developing a large hosted web server platform for a major ISP, to finally running his own IT consulting business in Southern California. Kerry was introduced to the world of Asterisk by a friend and began running his own business on it. After about a year of working with it and writing some articles that became extremely popular on the net, he felt it was time to start putting clients onto Asterisk-based systems. Today, Asterisk PBX systems represent a significant portion of his business revenue. Kerry has spoken at Astricon and does a regular seminar series in California. He is also the publisher of both http://voipspeak.net and http://asterisktutorials.com. He is very active with the Asterisk and FreePBX community and has even contributed modules to the FreePBX project.
