Overview

An interesting new feature to our hosted PBX is called extension virtualization.

The basic idea is that we want to separate the phone (device) from the functionality stack, which is setup by the user. One of the main reasons behind this is to enable easy migration between devices, for example:

• You can switch desks without taking the phone on the old desk with you because you can use the phone on your new/temporary desk without having to configure anything.
• A call center can use the same seats, but still give separate extensions to each agent. This enables accurate per agent statistics that do not depend on the actual phone.

Actually these are only a few use cases, but we hope that you got the idea.

How to Use It?

At the management interface level, not much has changed. We didn’t add a new type of extension just to support virtualization. Any phone terminal extension provisioned in your account can become a base for other extensions (allows extensions to virtualize on it) and any extension can be virtualized. In order to do this, you just have to enable the functionality on an extension basis.

It’s quite simple! Just call *30 + extension_number  from the phone where you want to virtualize your extension, enter the password and that’s it.