[Sussex] Asterisk

[Jon Fautley]

Simon Chappell wrote:

> Hey all
>
> Don't know if any of you have had any experience with Asterisk..?
> (No not the little cartoon character with a fat friend from Gaul)

Yup :)

I use it at work and at home :)

> We decided that as all our staff work from home we would get some sip 
> phones. We plugged them in and set them up to connect to FWD and it 
> sort of worked. However we needed something a littel more reliable so 
> I installed my own sip server at the office.
> took all of 5 mins to download it and make:make install (Shortly 
> afterwards I found I could have typed emerge asterisk)
> A few hours of ponsing about with config files and we found a site 
> that had a setup guide for a basic setup.
> With a bit tweaking 5 minutes later we where phoning each other over 
> IP and down VPNS .... Leaving Ansaphone messages and collecting them 
> via email..

Cool... did you use Andy Powell's guide? He's a good friend of mine....

I've got a collection of handsets that I've been playing with, 
everything from the Grandstream phones (nasty) upto a Cisco 7960G (if 
you could have sex with a phone, this would be the one you'd want to do 
it with), and I also have a Snom100 and a Snom200, and have a SipTone on 
it's way :)

> I am now ordering the PCI card to interface to analogue phone lines..
> by the way the config was only 3 text files which I am happy to share 
> if any one wants a kickstart. and we are using grandstream phones and 
> also a software phone.
>
Where are you ordering from? I've found telappliant.co.uk to be VERY 
good and VERY VERY helpful...

And if you need any commercial support, feel free to contact my employer :)

Jon