Asterisk VOIP Tips

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I love Apple – what can I say? I know some of you may not agree with me but here’s a piece of news worth sharing. For all those iPhone fans out there, Asterisk Voicemail for the iPhone is coming out very soon. I ran across a developer’s announcement about his project on ChrisCarey.com. This is what he has to tell you:

Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone allows you to check your voicemail messages on your house or business line from your iPhone. You can think of it as “Visual Voicemail”, but for your Asterisk PBX numbers instead of your AT&T cell number. The technology behind it is Asterisk (The Open-Source PBX), with iUI, Joe Hewitt’s UI interface for iPhone. This software can be installed on any Asterisk server (though you will want to use one that is available via the Internet) and will allow you to check messages in multiple folders, listen to messages, delete messages, move messages, and change voicemail settings - all from your iPhone.

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Asterisk 1.6 is starting to shape up with some features of Asterisk 1.2 and 1.4 already successfully merged and new dialplan functions already in place. Listed below is a summary of latest update in the functionality CHANGES file of Asterisk.

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We previously wrote a brief introduction about VoIP gateways recently, and from there we learned some basic concepts about Gateways, which handle the task of transferring voice or data traffic from a circuit-switched telephone network to an IP-based network. We also talked in passing about some of the factors you have to consider when choosing a Gateway for your business or company.

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Sounds like an interesting title, right? Well, apparently it’s an issue that just brought the world of Hollywod closer to geekdom. However, Paris Hilton did not exactly have to know the inner workings of Asterisk to conduct her “hack attack.”

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The voicemail protocol is quite a bit of fun and super easy to use. Let’s just jump right into it.

From the Voip-Info respository, here is how the command will go in your dialplan.

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Today we are going to discuss the basics of using Asterisk as a voicemail server. Voicemail is an extremely easy to learn and use command in Asterisk.

First of all, we need to add it to our dialplan. If you wanted to use it as only voicemail, you can set it to something like this.

exten => 33,1,Answer()
exten => 33,2,Wait(2)
exten => 33,3,Voicemail(225)

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