How To Add a Cellular Trunk to Your VoIP System

In Part 1 of a two part series, Michael Graves shows you wow to reach out and touch the world by adding a cellular trunk line to an Asterisk-based VoIP system.

Tags: Asterisk, GSM, Portech, VoIP,

A Beginners Guide To Successful VOIP Over DSL - Part 2

Part 1 of this series covered VoIP basics and introduced the topic of Quality of Service. This time, we look at Traffic Shaping and Power Considerations.

Tags: Asterisk, m0n0wall, PoE, VoIP,

Digium releases VoIP 'software appliance'

(HUNTSVILLE, AL) Asterisk creator Digium today announced what it calls its "first software appliance", aimed at getting an Asterisk-based VoIP PBX up and running within 30 minutes.

AsteriskNOW is an open source distribution based on the recently released Asterisk 1.4, featuring a Digium-designed GUI. It includes a new setup wizard that guides users through the installation process "regardless of any previous Linux experience" and includes all the Linux components necessary to run, debug and build Asterisk.

Tags: Asterisk, Digium, VoIP,

How To: Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX

The Asterisk open source Voice over IP (VoIP) PBX is usually set up on a standalone PC. But Michael Graves shows how the combination of a special Asterisk distribution and a single board computer can provide a compact, quiet and low-power alternative.

Tags: Asterisk, How To, PBX, VoIP,

How To: Asterisk Answering Machine

While using Asterisk to answer your calls is admittedly overkill, it's a great way to get acquainted with this powerful open source VoIP application. Matt Kaatman takes you step-by-step through the process.

Tags: Asterisk, VoIP,

Asterisk@Home

What Vonage did for the individual callers, Asterisk does for SOHO and small biz users looking an easy to install and use VoIP PBX. Jonathan Ghazarian takes a look at the more user-friendly version of this popular open source application.

Tags: Asterisk, PBX, VoIP,