Asterisk anyone?

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Tuesday 08 November 2005 01:17 pm, David A. Bandel wrote:
> 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.

Bleeding edge?  ;)

> 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).

I've been meaning to run one at my home for some time.  I bought and FXO card 
for my pc to interface with one my ISDN lines.  I wish more companies would 
likely follow suit.  Right now I'm witnessing the clash of the titans, Aspect 
IP Switch (our Callcenter folks) and Cisco CallManager (joint Data and Voice 
Telecom).  Two different groups proselytizing opposite ends of the spectrum, 
and I'm simply thankful that we've weeded out the awful Siemens Hipath crap 
the voice guys originally tried to push.  Alas it seems the large 
corporations seem to devalue solutions without huge price tags.

> VoIP will replace regular telephony.

Quite likely.  In the US it will largely depend on the nasty regulatory 
strength of the incumbent lobbies.  Hopefully we have already seen their 
power waning with the advent of several large-scan VoIP providers.

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Matthew Carpenter 
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