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- Asterisk: Good choice for a large project?
- Last year, my department was granted the auspicious task of handling the campus telephony services at Westminster College. The existing phone system is a Nortel Meridian switch. The system is rock solid and has a good feature set, but it's not inexpensive at all to maintain or extend....
- Tags: Phone, Nortel Networks Corp., Avaya Inc., Asterisk, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking, Scott Lowe
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- SolutionBase: Configuring additional features in Asterisk 1.2
- If all Asterisk did as a VoIP solution was route calls, it would get the job done, but not be a very good alternative to proprietary systems. In this article, Brian Smith shows how to modify .conf files in Asterisk 1.2 to customize call handling.
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), mainMenu, Asterisk 1.2
- Technical articles 2007-08-06
- SolutionBase: Configure Asterisk to support a T1 PRI connection
- Setting up an Asterisk PBX server won't do you much good if you don't connect it to the outside world. In this article, Brian Smith shows how to configure Zaptel drivers and connect an Asterisk PBS to a T1 line.
- Tags: Asterisk, Open source, VoIP, Channel, Phone, Author, Context, Extension, Option, Asterisk PBS, Zap Module, Telecom & Utilities, Networking
- Technical articles 2007-07-23
- SolutionBase: Designing a basic Asterisk VOIP system for SIP clients
- AlternativesGood article.Also worth considering are Astlinux (very stripped-down and efficient linux distro incorporating asterisk) and Trixbox (which offers an excellent web-based GUI).There is an O'Reilly book Asterisk The Future of Telephony that is an essential and free download.It can be tricky to set Asterisk up, but once it is, it...
- Tags: Liegerm, Asterisk, SIP
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- SolutionBase: Designing a basic Asterisk VOIP system for SIP clients
- Asterisk can be a powerful VoIP solution, but configuring it can be tricky; there are no fancy point-and-click GUIs. Brian Smith shows you how to configure Asterisk by fine-tuning the appropriate configuration files.
- Tags: Asterisk, Open source, VoIP, Configure, SIP, Phone, Author, Context, Configuration, Client, File, Macro, Office, Extension, Asterisk VOIP, Extension Definition, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Emerging Technologies
- Technical articles 2007-07-17
- Integrate Skype with IP PBX
- In a recent article on the VoIP News Web site, Robert Poe described a new software product called SkyStone, which sounds like it may give Skype's VoIP service its best chance ever of getting a strong foothold in the business environment. As a popular no-cost or low-cost way to make...
- Tags: VoIP newsletter, VoIP, Telephony, Skype, SIP, H.323, General, Deb Shinder, Convergence, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- SolutionBase: Discover an open source solution to VoIP with Asterisk
- Asterisk is a free open source PBX with features that rivals other proprietary PBX systems. From residential networks to full-blown cooperate call centers, Asterisk is a powerful cost-effective system with all the features you would expect to find in any high-end program, plus a little more. In this article, Brian...
- Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, open source, Asterisk, PBX, phone, VoIP
- Technical articles 2007-06-21
- PICTURE RECOVERY WHEN WIPED OUT TO REINSTALL WINDOWS!
- My husband knows more about these things than I but he's not home right now! I really really really need these pictures and videos back.. my husband reinstalled vista and it wiped out all my pics from my documents. they are no where to be found is there any way...
- Tags: Backups, hilaryarmstrong_13@..., husband, backup
- Discussion threads 2007-06-12
- Asterisk a major presence at VON 2007
- At the 2007 Spring VON (Voice/Video over Net) trade show in San Jose CA, Asterisk the Open Source PBX Telephony solution was a major presence. Digium which is the company behind Asterisk took up a large chunk of space on the show floor along with many Asterisk partners showing...
- Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Asterisk
- Blog posts 2007-03-22
- Asterisk a major presence at VON 2007
- Anyone considering Asterisk for their VoIP deployment?Anyone considering Asterisk for their VoIP deployment?
- Tags: george_ou@..., Asterisk, VoIP Deployment
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- Asterisk: Open source IP PBX
- Does Asterisk work on Windows?The article on open source IP PBX states that Asterik is available for Windows too. But, after visiting the Asterisk web site, I cannot find any references to installing it on Windows platform.Sorry NO, you can not
- Tags: Asterisk, feedback, jeff.ggl007@..., Linux, Microsoft Windows, open source, pbx, telephony, UDP, User Diagram Protocol, voip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Asterisk: Open source IP PBX
- Private branch exchange PBX equipment traditionally has beencostly, but along with IP-based voice communications camePBX software. Like other types of software, some PBX programs are released asopen source products under the free GNU General Public License GPL. The mostpopular open source PBX software is Asterisk from Digium, originally writtenfor the...
- Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk PBX, Deb Shinder, IAX, open source, PBX
- Technical articles 2006-11-03
- Asterisk: Be your <em>own</em> phone company
- Asterisk not ready for prime timeSept 26th article on computerworld outlines australian company adopting Asterisk. Says the problems they had means they would not recommend other companies adopt this for at least a year.Rather than a breathless hype of this, I'd be more interested in a realistic discussion of...
- Tags: Asterisk, Dr Dij, it management, telephone, voip
- Discussion threads 2006-10-10
- Asterisk: Be your <em>own</em> phone company
- Visit our Asterisk Image Gallery here.Back in the 1960s there was a rallying cry that defined alot about that decade, that cry was "Power Tothe People!!!" If the Internet is nothing else, it has been anexceptionally disruptive force in terms of taking control away from old,established companies and institutions and...
- Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk Image Gallery, broadband, broadband phone, caller ID, David H.M. Spector, Internet, telephone
- Technical articles 2006-10-05
- Enterprise open source VoIP with Asterisk
- Channel BanksDon't forget to mention that Adtran TA750 channel banks can be had ont he secondary market in new condition for a fraction of their original cost.Great pointeBay does have some very cheap deals on channel banks. Thanks for your comments, they're very useful with the model number provided!
- Tags: Asterisk, Enterprise open source VoIP, channel bank, voip, Enterprise, bank, david@..., Topology, networking
- Discussion threads 2006-07-04
- Enterprise open source VoIP with Asterisk
- Enterprise open source VoIP with AsteriskA lot of people want to know if it is possible to build an enterprise grade open source VoIP solution and if there are any benefits to it. The answer is that it is not only possible, but there are special features that are exclusive...
- Tags: Asterisk, George Ou, IP, IP phone, telephone, VoIP
- Technical articles 2006-06-29
- Prioritisng IP traffic on Cisco
- HII want to run an IP PBX (Digium / Asterisk) for local and international calls. My Internet connection is via VSAT and very expensive but I want to be able to have toll quality voice for 4 concurrent international calls. The IP PBX will reside on the LAN and my...
- Tags: Asterisk, Cisco Systems Inc., IP Traffic, IP-PBX, CBQ, denisobrien, networking, voice, IP
- Q&A 2006-06-20
- Build a standalone voicemail server with this VoIP hack
- This excerpt from VoIP Hacks: Tips & Tools for Internet Telephony explains how you can access Asterisk's extremely powerful voicemail application in 30 minutes or less. Asterisk contains an extremely powerful voicemail application, but accessing that application requires some configuration manipulation. In this downloadable excerpt from VoIP...
- Tags: IP Telephony, Server, Tool, Asterisk, VOIP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Productivity, Networking
- Download resources 2006-01-13
- VoIP Hacks: Build a Standalone Voicemail Server in Less Than a Half-Hour
- Asterisk comprises many quality applications, and voicemail is one of them. In fact, Asterisk is perhaps best known for the feature set of its voicemail system. In this section, the paper demonstrates how one can harness Asterisk's extremely powerful voicemail application in 30 minutes or less. This way, everybody in...
- Tags: VoIP, Voicemail, Server, O'Reilly Media Inc., Asterisk, Telecommunications
- Book chapters 2005-12-13
- Asterisk Update
- Just an update on the Asterisk PBX project. I now have a working PBX, this is only configured for internal calls at the moment we only need this for conference calls. The installation is pretty fast using the Asterisk@Home install CD, CentOS is the underlying distribution installed (this...
- Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk PBX, card
- Blog posts 2005-12-02
