Overview

Skyetel is proud to be a certified and preferred provider for 3CX. This makes configuring Skyetel for your 3CX PBX very easy - simply select us from the drop down list and.. boom.. your done!

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Things To Know

You Need Good DNS Servers

SRV records are advanced technologies and rely on strong DNS resolvers. Please make sure you specify a well known and reputable public DNS server explicitly on your PBX to insure DNS resolution does not fail. We recommend 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8

3CX Routes on E.164 Format

By default, Skyetel routes all calls to the PBX using 11 digits. We do this in the SIP URI (the first line in the SIP INVITE packet). For example, when you call our number, this is what the SIP URI looks like:

INVITE sip:13609865200@52.41.52.34:5060 SIP/2.0

However, in order to organize our traffic, we send all Caller ID information in E.164 format. Therefore, the TO in a Skyetel INVITE looks like this:

To: <sip:+13609865200@52.41.52.34>

This discrepancy confuses 3CX - it would prefer that the To and the URI are identical.

As part of our interconnection, 3CX is configured to route using the TO in E.164 instead of 11 digits. This means you should add phone numbers to 3CX like this: +13609865200

However - in our legacy 3CX guide, we recommended using a wildcard:

In order to accommodate this, we recommend you use a wildcard for your Skyetel numbers. Per 3CX documentation:

3CX will match the number inserted in this field with the “to” header, starting from the last part of the received string, thus avoiding any differences in the format of the number. For example, if you are based in the UK and your DID number is 0845-2304024, then you can enter the number *2304024. This will match any DID number inserted in the “to” field ending with these numbers, including +448452304024, 08452304024, 00448452304024, and, of course, *2304024.
https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/inbound-rules/#h.kp49xtr98uu1

This means that we would recommend that you configure your DIDs in this format: *3609865200

This method is still supported and will work correctly. However, you will not be able to route using 11 digits using the certified interconnection with 3CX.

You only need 1 Skyetel Gateway

Because 3CX natively supports DNS SRV lookups, you do not need all the gateways we listed in our legacy guide. The single Skyetel gateway will route and balance traffic as intended across all of our regions. 

Skyetel was certified on version 16 and 15

Skyetel was tested and certified with 3CX using version 15 and 16 and will be certified for all future version. Previous versions are not supported and you will need to use our Legacy 3CX configuration in order to get Skyetel to work on those PBXs.

3CX.skyetel.com Uses Port "0"

This is normal - 3cx.skyetel.com is an SRV DNS record that is purpose built for 3CX (if you are not using 3CX, please use srv.skyetel.com instead). SRV records contain the port and protocol information in the SRV lookup:

id 13608
opcode QUERY
rcode NOERROR
flags QR RD RA
;QUESTION
_sip._udp.srv.skyetel.com. IN SRV
;ANSWER
_sip._udp.srv.skyetel.com. 299 IN SRV 10 10 5060 va1.skyetel.com.
_sip._udp.srv.skyetel.com. 299 IN SRV 10 10 5060 ca1.skyetel.com.
_sip._udp.srv.skyetel.com. 299 IN SRV 10 10 5060 or1.skyetel.com.
;AUTHORITY
;ADDITIONAL

Because SRV records contain all of the relevant information about port, priority and source IPs, you can safely trust in 3cx.skyetel.com or srv.skyetel.com

Don't Add anything to the Outbound Proxy

When you are troubleshooting issues, make sure you leave "Outbound Proxy" blank 

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Keep Your Phone Numbers Unique

The most common issue 3CX has when receiving calls from our network is that Administrators forget to keep their Trunk phone numbers unique per trunk. Duplicate phone numbers across multiple trunks will cause 3CX to reject any attempt for us to send inbound calls. 

Main Trunk Number

You can use any number you would like for this, but please make sure that it is unique per trunk.

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