Introduction

VoIP is a new technology that makes it possible to make phone calls over the internet. The main selling point has been lower price for phone calls, but equally important (if not more) is the new ways you can have control over what you can do with your phone. Today, with an old PC and some free software you can setup a PBX (Private Branch eXchange) right at home that is more advanced than the PBX you have at work. You can have as many extensions (phones) connected as you like, then easily transfer calls between them. Maybe you want to setup a menu system for voice mail, so that everyone in your household can have their own. Why not have a new message mailed to you as soon as it’s recorded? No problem. All this is included with Trixbox.

Annoyed by telemarketers? Just use a blacklist to get rid of them. Do you want to be able to answer your home phone when traveling? Just use your laptop and JackenIAX, and you will be able to answer and place calls as if you were at home.