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Recently I’ve found myself setting up a new Asterisk box, which is oddly one of my favorite tasks. IP Telephony (or VoIP for the rest of us) is quite fun to play with. Office phones and IVRs are something that everyone uses. It’s really nice to see something you have built used day in and…
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Sipdroid on the Android Market At work we’ve been playing with SIP softphone clients. There are a number of remote workers and this would be much more convenient for them to use than something like Skype. Of course, first I had to fix NAT/SIP issues which is another post for another time. Today’s post is…
When I setup the Cisco 3600 in the office to work with asterisk as our FXO ports, I needed incoming and outgoing capabilities. In was easy enough, but out was more tricky because you need to setup specific dial-peer plans. Well for the longest time I had 3 different sets of rules per port (911,…
Well its amazingly difficult to find documentation about how to make FXS’s work with Asterisk. I happen to have 4 FXS ports on the Cisco 3640, the same one that has four FXO ports. Below I’m including my configuration for use by others. The FXS port is configured as extension 600 (the Asterisk side configuration…
So several months ago I moved our small office over from a Windows 2000 box running some Microsoft built-in IP telephony software, to an Asterisk PBX. Now I’ll admit I knew almost nothing about Asterisk, or Cisco hardware. Since then I’ve made major strides. Yesterdays project was to see if I could get a Cisco…