Help Topic: Telephony - TAPI

What does TAPI mean?

TAPI is short for Telephony Application Programming Interface. TAPI was establihed in 1993 by Microsoft and Intel for applications like software phones, video conference programs or call center systems.

Which can I use for TAPI?

All phone registered at the ${_global.productname} can become TAPI phones.

What else do I need?

You need a TAPI driver for your operating system to use the TAPI functions of the ${_global.productname}.
Before installing the driver please activate TAPI for the ${_global.productname}.

For installing the driver please refer to the documentation of the driver.

Please note! A TAPI driver is not included in delivery of the ${_global.productname}.

What are the name of my TAPI Clients?

Phone internal MSN TAPI Client
Analog 1 21 Zap/g3
Analog 2 22 Zap/g4
ISDN 3xx Zap/g2/3xx
VoIP 4xx SIP/4xx
where xx: ISDN = 00 to 19; VoIP = 00 to 29