User Guide

SIP Server / VoIP PBX

The versatility of LAD's native SIP server with VoIP PBX lets you keep your communications as simple or as sophisticated as you prefer. For simple setups with direct ringing on a few telephone sets, LAD gives you the advantage of isolating and hiding your VoIP telephone set from the Internet, with LAD sitting in between your VoIP carrier and your VoIP device(s) and interfacing with the carrier on one end and the VoIP device(s) on the other, thus protecting your VoIP devices from outside attempts to exploit them for spying and hacking.

More advanced setups may tap into LAD's versatile and flexible call processing capabilities to build PBXs with multiline ringing, extensions, conference rooms, ring groups, touchtone menus, call queues, variable call routing and scheduling. Users may even tap into multiple carriers to take advantage of their best offerings for various call destinations.

Enabling LAD's SIP Server

The first step to using LAD's SIP / VoIP capabilities is to enable the SIP server functionalities:

1. From the Main Menu click on "VoIP."
2. Click on "SIP Settings".
3. On the SIP Setting page checkmark "Intercept SIP".
4. Set the LAN port and WAN port to 5060.
5. Save changes.
6. Reboot LAD (you may do this from the "Global Settings" page, accessed from LAD's Main Menu).

After LAD reboots the SIP server, including VoIP PBX functionalities, will be enabled. Any SIP devices that you had had connecting through LAD to your carrier, however, would lose connectivity until you enter their credentials into LAD so LAD can pass their communications through to your carrier. To do so, see about creating SIP Intercept Pairs on the SIP Account page

Once the SIP server is enabled, SIP accounts may be created to connect to VoIP telephone sets, SIP apps and other SIP devices and to connect to VoIP carriers.

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