Asterisk anyone?

[David A. Bandel]

Regurgitating the prose of Matthew Carpenter Matthew Carpenter
<matt at eisgr.com> on Tue, 8 Nov 2005 08:52:56 -0500: begin  
|Hey David,
|
|I'm connecting to an Asterisk box my friend/coworker set up.  He went with 
|Asterisk at Home, a CD-installer which builds the box from the ground up, 
|identifying and configuring things like his FXO card, and providing a web GUI 
|which is quite nice (and I've not found elsewhere).
|
|Asterisk is very powerful.  I've tinkered with it a bit myself, since Ubuntu's 
|repos have it.  There is much configuring, however, and I'd likely try 
|Asterisk at home for a quick success which would then allow me to learn on a 
|working system.
|

Well, first, Asterisk is powerful, but I find little need to set up all
the bells and whistles at the expense of some of the power.  Second,
Asterisk at home is 1.0.9.  I'm running 1.2.0beta2 with the patch to add
followme functionality.  I expect 1.2.0 to be released RSN, as the
1.2.0 betas have been very stable for me.

I think you'll find IAX (inter-Asterisk Exchange) easy to use.  I
expect a lot of companies to follow suit and run Asterisk.  Heck, I'm
going to use the office Asterisk server for home too until I just need
two (one at each location).

VoIP will replace regular telephony.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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