3. Signing Up

Signing up for BYOD is relatively straightforward, but I ended up having an unnecessarily difficult installation due to somewhat unusual circumstances. But this turned out to be a good thing, since I got to experience more aspects of the BYOD process than I probably would have. I started by going to the Sign-Up section of the BroadVoice website and making the selection shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8: BYOD Signup start
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The next screen prompted me to select a device (Figure 9). Selecting anything other than Not Listed (Generic SIP) changes the screen to reveal a MAC address entry box where that VoIP adapter's information can be entered.

Figure 9: BYOD Signup device selection
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BroadVoice uses the MAC address both as an account control mechanism and to generate a configuration file for supported devices that you can download to automatically set up your hardware. But since I didn't have a device yet, I had to select the "generic" option, which changed the page to reveal an "OS, Vendor or Model" entry box that I also wasn't able to fill out.

Tip: BroadVoice supplied this list of supported devices that can be auto-configured. Note that not all of these may appear in the sign-up drop-down list:

Aastra 480i AudioCodes MP104, MP108, and MP124 Cisco 79xx, ATA186 and ATA188 Grandstream 100, 101, 102, 286, 486 and 488 Motorola VT1000 Panasonic TGP100 Pulver WiSIP Siemens optiPoint 400 Sipura 841, 1000, 1001, 2000, 2001, and 3000 Snom 190 Uniden DTA200 and UIP200 UTStarcom F1000

The following devices are also supported, but can't auto-configured:

X-Ten Lite and Pro Talk Switch 48-CA, 48-CAV Epygi Quadro 2x, 4x, 16x