Introduction

Introduction

FortiGate Voice units integrate FortiGate UTM functionality with VoIP phone PBX functionality. Some FortiGate Voice models also support connections to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A small office or an enterprise branch office can use a FortiGate Voice unit to provide routing, Ethernet switching, Internet connectivity, UTM security, VoIP gateway, and VoIP PBX features for the office.

FortiGate Voice PBX functionality includes:

Four Foreign eXchange Office (FXO) interfaces for connected to up to 4 standard public switch telephone network (PSTN) phone lines (some FortiGate Voice models)

Flexible number dial plans

Standard VoIP PBX feature set

Integrated dial-back up modem and optional 3G wireless cards

Voicemail

Message notification

Unified messaging

Music on hold

Automatic Call Distribution (ACD)

Basic conferencing

Statistics and logging

Figure 1: FortiGate Voice Network connections

 

 

SIP

SIP Trunking

 

ISP

 

 

 

IMS

 

 

LAN

WAN

 

NGN

FortiFones or

 

 

VPN

 

 

 

Service Provider

 

 

 

etc

other

 

 

 

 

 

 

Network

 

SIP Phones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIP

a/b - wire

Class 5

 

 

 

LAN

FXO (x4)

PSTN

 

 

 

(LEC)

 

 

 

 

(some models)

 

PCs with

 

 

 

 

 

 

FortiGate Voice

 

 

SIP Soft Phone

 

 

unit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a/b - wire

SIP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BRI

 

LAN

 

 

 

POTS/ISDN

 

Telephone

 

 

 

Adapters (ATA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FortiGate Voice Version 4.0 MR1 Administration Guide

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