OpenVBX

My impression is that most Twilio customers are big. To fill in the gaps they support this php based PBX thing called OpenVBX.

I decided yesterday (11/30/16) that I don't really want the bother of running Asterisk at home to support 2 phones. And I want the option to pick up calls on my mobile, so why have the calls go first to my Asterisk server at home?

Hence I am looking at moving the whole PBX into the cloud and basing it on OpenVBX since I am already using Twilio for my SIP trunk.

PBX Features

This is leftover from my Vastra days.

What does it take to build a basic PBX in the cloud?

1. Set up SIP phone and provision it
2. Give the SIP phone an extension (Twilio is more like the old AT&T in that they expect you to buy a separate line for each person.)
3. Allow VOIP extensions to call each other
4. Set up a receptionist line
5. Create an after hours autoattendant
6. Voicemail
7. Tracking usage of extensions at receptionist station

Now that I have a PBX, how can I extend it?

1. SMS support
2. WebRTC
3. Text to Speech
4. Speech to Text
5. Presence detection
6. Softphones
7. Mobile softphones