VoIP "provisioning"

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Can someone explain to me what this term means. Provisioning generally
means setting aside resources for or assigning resources to a
particular device. But what resources are being assigned during VoIP
provisioning? I mean, how would it differ from simply setting up the
device for use on the Internet (assigning an IP address, recording a
MAC address, etc.)?

Thanks in advance.

 

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On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:18:51 -0700, Actor123 wrote:

> what resources are being assigned during VoIP provisioning?

Provisioning can be done at a distance, but I think the main point is that
it is done from a server. For example, the Digium IAXy usually gets its
config from the asterisk server and this includes

its local ip address and mask or dhcp
the asterisk server ip address (important because IAXy does not do DNS)
stuff like codecs, debug on/off, etc

Many SIP phones use provisioning by ftp or tftp. This is a pain if you
have one phone but the only way to go if you have 500. Basically, this is
the point of provisioning, auto configuring a bunch of phones.