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911 VOIP Calls Should Be Tested

April 14th, 2008 Dave Posted in Basics, Cellphone, VOIP 1 Comment »

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VOIP: The Good and The Bad

April 11th, 2008 Dave Posted in Basics, Other, VOIP No Comments »

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Social Networking Benefits From VOIP

February 22nd, 2008 Dave Posted in Basics, Other, VOIP No Comments »

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Installing Asterisk with a GUI on Linux

October 8th, 2007 Dave Posted in Asterisk, Basics, GUI, Other, PBX No Comments »

I don’t know how I missed this, but I just came across an excellent Asterisk How-to guide on howtoforge.com, the excellent site that houses an increasing amount of guides of doing many things on Linux. The article is entitled “Installing the Asterisk PBX and The Asterisk Web-Based Provisioning GUI on Linux” and it provides a good step-by-step guide on getting started with Asterisk PBX on your favorite Linux distribution.

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Tips On Maximizing Your PBX

June 29th, 2007 Dave Posted in Asterisk, Basics No Comments »

Sure, you know about the basic features that come with your PBX systems. Features such as call forwarding, voicemail, call accounting, configurability, etc. But for those who haven’t been able to explore the full extent of their PBX’s features yet, this article will give you an idea of the more advanced PBX features you might have overlooked. Hope this post will teach you how to take full advantage of your business phone system.

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Choosing a VoIP Gateway for Your Company (Part 1)

December 19th, 2006 Dave Posted in Basics, Hardware, PBX 2 Comments »

Gateways are essential aspects of any enterprise VoIP system. These transfer voice (and other traffic) between the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the IP (Internet Protocol) network. This means VoIP gateways should be able to do much more than traditional PBXes that only interface your internal analog network with the PSTN. As such, you should also expect the gateway to handle other tasks, such as call management, and routing of voice traffic, and translation across the various VoIP protocols, when needed.

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Back to the Basics - Config Files

November 13th, 2006 admin Posted in Basics, Dialplan No Comments »

The configuration files in Asterisk are all text based. Nothing too complicated. If you installed the sample .conf files, then they will have a default setup and will have everything commented nicely so that you can learn your way through them.

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Great comments on ‘Sniffin’ the VOIP Traffic’

October 1st, 2006 Dan Posted in Basics, SIP 1 Comment »

My last post has generated some great comments (as I hoped it would) from those who have a lot more experience using Wireshark to view the network traffic from a SIP call. We’re going over these in more detail on the * forums, but one smart commenter brought a paper to my attention that will be great research material. Read the rest of this entry »

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Sniffin’ the VOIP traffic

September 16th, 2006 Dan Posted in Basics, SIP 9 Comments »

This time we will install a network protocol analyzer to watch the traffic on our LAN from initiating and connecting a SIP call.

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Chowing on some Nerd Vittles.

September 11th, 2006 Dan Posted in Basics No Comments »

To get started on some askerisk hackin’, let’s head on over to nerdvittles for a very nice treat from a fellow Charlestonian asterisk guru (much more than I).

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