Category Archives: Telephony

Mitel 5000 Voicemail Only Extension

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Mitel 5000 Voicemail Only Extension Sometimes it’s nice to have an extension or phone number you could really care less about. What I mean is you don’t care if it’s slammed by telemarketers, etc. You can give the number to people you don’t really want to talk to but need to hear from. The Mitel 5000, as would most phone systems I would imagine, has a solution to this. The solution is to create a phantom extension and link it to a mailbox. The caller can call in and reach the extension and the call will be routed directly to … Continue reading →

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Mitel 5000 / Asterisk Integration

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Mitel 5000 to Free PBX (Asterisk) Trunk The first dependency is to have licensing for the number of SIP trunks you would like to create on the Mitel 5000 system. We will be creating a SIP Trunk Group that will require these trunk licences. Each trunk needs a license at the cost of something like $125 a piece for small quantities. The Mitel 5000: First, go into System–>Devices and Features–>SIP Peers–>SIP Trunk Groups Create a SIP trunk Group with just a single extension number. It will probably be something like 9200X. Mine was 92003 but yours could end up being … Continue reading →

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