Articles Tagged With Asterisk

How To Build Asterisk Appliances On The Cheap

Lots of folks like to build their own Asterisk boxes for SOHO and SMB VoIP. Michael Graves shows us the many inexpensive hardware options that are available.

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Easy Asterisk in a Box: Jazinga VoIP PBX Appliance Reviewed

If you want the power of Asterisk but would rather not wrestle with Linux and command lines, Jazinga could be your ticket to an easy-to-use VoIP PBX.   Read more...

Slideshow: Jazinga VoIP PBX

The Jazinga MGA120 is an easy to use Asterisk-based VoIP PBX appliance. Read the full review.   Read more...

Skype For Asterisk beta program starts today

Asterisk creator Digium and Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For Asterisk.

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How To Add a Cellular Trunk to Your VoIP System - Part 2

Part 2 of the series details the integration of a Portech MV-370 VoIP GSM Gateway both standalone and with an Asterisk PBX.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.

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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.

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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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...

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.   Read more...