On the command line, I entered the appropriate telephone number, and the 2600 made a VOIP connection to the destination router, which rang the phone. I used a four-digit extension for our testing, but I could have used any number of digits. During testing, I made a VOIP call that was routed to the PSTN over a telephone line. I have to prefix the call with a digit that tells the destination 2600 to send the call over the telephone line, which complicates the dialing process. You can make this a seamless procedure by having the 2600 prefix access digits to the phone number.
Users can pick up any phone in the office and dial without having to change their behavior.
Cisco's ConfigMaker eases this burden. I tested an alpha version of ConfigMaker 2.1 that incorporated the 2600. With a few mouse clicks, ConfigMaker completely configured the 2600 and generated a configuration file for it. I cut and pasted the resulting configuration file into the 2600. The final version of ConfigMaker will be able to push the configuration out over the network.