fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. IN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

I downloaded Asterisk@Home from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net Note, in 2006 Asterisk@Home was renamed to trixbox Its a large download, so allow plently of time if you have a slow Internet connection. You can install it on an old PC, or use a virtual machine. I have VMware, but you could also use the free VMWare Player and QEMU, or [...]

There are a couple of ways to try Asterisk The easiest is to download an ISO of a live Linux CD with Asterisk from AstLinux at http://www.astlinux.org Burn the ISO to CD-R (or compact flash) and reboot and you’ll have a working Asterisk system. You’ll need a USB or flash card to save your configuration, [...]

Itoh-san was the first to tell me about the open-source PBX system called Asterisk. His company at the time was seriously thinking about changing from their existing Cisco IP phone network to Asterisk. Asterisk 1.2 released on Nov 17 2005. Available from http://www.asterisk.org/  

This article shows how to run Asterisk on Windows by using the free VMware Player and QEMU emulator with the Asterisk@Home ISO (500Mb ) http://voipspeak.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=28 Btw you can download OS images preinstalled with a couple of applications for QEMU from http://www.oszoo.org/

If you have two softphones that you want to receive calls from the internet, set the ports as below then set your router to forward to each phone. X-Lite 1: Listen SIP Port: 5060 Listen RTP Port: 8000 Forward port 5060 to this PC. X-Lite 2: Listen SIP Port: 5061 Listen RTP Port: 8006 Forward [...]

If your PC has speakers and a microphone, you can make phone calls by downloading a soft phone. Or you could replace your microphone with a USB phone, a phone that plugs into your PCs USB port. Download software phones from SJLabs at http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html There are packages for Telephony providers such as Vonage, VoiceGlo, Free [...]

The main Asterisk website, put together by the web developers at Digium http://www.asterisk.org/ Astrisk documentation project http://www.asteriskdocs.org http://www.asteriskguru.com A wiki about all things VOIP http://www.voip-info.org VOIPSpeak has news and articles all about VOIP, including useful articles on step-by-step configuration of Asterisk@Home and building your own PBX http://voipspeak.net Digium provides hardware for connecting phones and phone [...]

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. InN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]