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Archive for February, 2006

Google has introduced GoogleTalk - a messaging and voice communication platform. Is it old news? It might seem so at the first glance. But when instant messenger was integrated with Gmail and Google expressed commitment to SIP integration it seems that a new and powerful strategy is emerging. This article is an effort to understand implications of this strategy. New ideas sink in faster and deeper if there is a way to try them out quickly. Here is how to see that working For the experimental setup I decided to use

  • VMware Player running on Windows. Inside WMware Player runs Linux.
  • Asterisk@Home open source PBX, Wildfire Jabber Server, and Asterisk-IM Asterisk/Wildfire bridge run on Linux inside of VMware
  • X-lite SIP phone and Coccinella Jabber client.

Full setup is available for download a form of a torrent Direct download will be coming shortly (once I resolve bandwith cap issues with my ISP)

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Filed Under (VoIP) by serge on February-12-2006

In this article I will explain how to configure Asterisk@Home to make live phone calls. I assume that you have already downloaded and installed VMware player and Asterisk@Home image. If you have not done so, follow instructions in previous post that describes that process. Read the rest of this entry »


Filed Under (VoIP) by serge on February-2-2006

Asterisk@Home VMware torrnet files are located at the end of this post.

  • Current stable version is 2.8 can be downloaded here
  • Current development version is 2.8b1

Recent development version is marking end of Asterisk@Home era and it is launcing FreePBX brand. Read about new features of FreePBX here. Most of the following instructions still apply, but UI looks a bit different. Please refer to another article for torrent file. New instructions will follow shortly.

    If you are curious about Asterisk PBX and want to see what whole fuss is about without getting into Linux stuff, this article will describe how to try Asterisk PBX on your Windows computer. It might be specially usefut if you use Vonage phone line or Vonage Business Plus account. Asterisk PBX will allow you to setup auto attendant to answer phone calls when you are not there, will give you interactive voice response to tell your customers about hours of operation or your fax number and so on… All of this can be done using Web Browser interface thanks to Asterisk@Home distribution. Asterisk@Home can do many other good things besides telephony. It even has a integrated Customer Relationship Management system (SugarCRM). For real production environment you would probably want to use a dedicated Linux server form a commercial vendor. But to get a feeling of what Asterisk at Home is, you can run it on your Windows box. This is how to do thatInstallation Instructions Read the rest of this entry »