Alternative addresses

As you can see in Figure 4.46 , to each telephone (either a hardware telephone or a software telephone) may be associated several alternative addresses. An alternative address is another name (or number) to reach the telephone. This functionality is very useful when there are telephones from which you can only dial numbers.

Figure 4.46: VoIP - Alternative Addresses

Example: There is an IP telephone with the name phone01. Through the site myipbrick, an user called John Smith associates to this telephone, placing in the SIP URL the address phone01. An alternative address is also created for that telephone, with the name 5050. From that moment on, the user John Smith may be reached either through the phone01 or 5050, but the main idea here is to contact the user simply by jsmith@domain.com.

In top menu there is a option to insert new alternative addresses. As already mentioned, these can have two types:

• Phone name: It is necessary to choose between the telephones in IPBrick, which one do you want to associate to an alternative address;
• New phone alternative address: Insert the alternative address of the telephone.

To confirm the insertion, it is necessary to click in the Insert button.

SIP URL's

As already mentioned, it is also possible to associate a certain telephone (number or name) to an internal user of the network. The association is made from the users email address in the field SIP URL. This operation is made through the site https://myipbrick.domain.com. This way, to contact a certain user all you have to do is call him/her through his/her email. The call shall be made, and the one who's calling knows which device the addressee shall use (mobile phone, softphone, analogic/digital telephone).