Whats your Asterisk Setup

momozone

Post your Asterisk setup here the cost of the setup, how long it took, issues you faced etc.

I'll get the ball rolling....

Hardware
Dell PowerEdge 2850 Server
Digium 4 port PRI Card
15 Aastra 480i Phones
60 Aastra 9122i Phones


Software
OS - Gentoo Linux
Asterisk Version 1.2.12.1
Wildfire Server

Setup
Cost - EURO14,000
Duration - 2 Weeks (Including testing etc)

Issues
The only issue I faced was with the manager interface locking up and it caused the Queue app to fall over. So call queues and agent login would not work. This was resolved by a digium patch.

steve-hosting36

Hardware
Dell PowerEdge 2850 Server
Digium 4 port PRI Card
25 Cisco 7960 Phones
15 Linksys PHB1100


Software
OS - Centos 4.2
Asterisk Version 1.2.12.1

Setup
Cost - Approx: EURO20k
Duration - 3 Weeks

joePC

Hardware
Dell PowerEdge 2850 Server
2x Dell POE Switches
Junghanns 4 port BRI card
70 GrandStream GXP-2000's
1x Snom 360

Software
OS - Centos 4.2
Asterisk Version 1.2.7.1-BRIStuffed

Setup
Cost - €13,000
Duration - 2 Day install

Issues: none

Do-more

Just wondering if anyone has a feature like this in their PBX

http://www.2n.cz/products/mobility-extension.html

Also wondering about ballpark costs for this?

Any local suppliers of similar?

joePC

This is easily implemented using Asterisk, I use it when im on the road.

Someone calls your Direct line -- Phone & mobile ring at the same time.

Very Handy

Do-more -> What phone system are you using at the moment?

Do-more

Just looking at the mo Joe!

I have a HO and am on the road a lot. Previous business had a 1850 no. but they will only terminate to a landline not a mobile. So I was paying a fortune in call forwarding charges.

Setting up new biz in the new year and would like to have 1850 no. again and am looking for the lowest cost options. I have an old PC lying idle so Asterisk seems like the way to go. What would you suggest?

joePC

What phone lines will you have?

e.g.

Incoming:
pots / ISDN / F-PRA line carrying your 1850 no.
Voip account providing your 1850 no.

Outgoing
pots / ISDN / F-PRA / VOIP or combination?

Depending on the size of your new company / how many calls will you be taking / reliability of your phone system etc.. all need to be taken into consideration.

Heres a couple of examples:

If you where just looking to terminate an 1850 no. to a mobile.

1. VOIP provider supplies the 1850 no.
2. Asterisk server

Call comes in, asterisk sents it to your mobile using outgoing VOIP.(DSL Line required)

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1. Eircom provides you with a PSTN line with the 1850 no.
2. Asterisk server with PSTN card.

Call comes in, asterisk sents it to your mobile using outgoing VOIP. (DSL Line required)

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1. Eircom provides you with a ISTN line with the 1850 no.
2. Asterisk server with PSTN card.

Call comes in, asterisk sents it to your mobile using outgoing ISDN.

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Let me know if you have any questions.

Joe,

joePC

momozone & steve-hosting36 --> Did you use the onboard NIC's with the Dell 2850, I saw there was some reported IRQ issues with the e1000 intel nics and the Digium PRI Card's?

sirlinux

Do-more wrote:

Just looking at the mo Joe!

I have a HO and am on the road a lot. Previous business had a 1850 no. but they will only terminate to a landline not a mobile. So I was paying a fortune in call forwarding charges.

Setting up new biz in the new year and would like to have 1850 no. again and am looking for the lowest cost options. I have an old PC lying idle so Asterisk seems like the way to go. What would you suggest?

if you are on vodafone office, and you have one of those sip to gsm convertors, you can send the call for free to your mobile using asterisk and a sim card from your vodafone office plan in the sip to gsm connector, works treat, slight delay in call setup thats all.

Do-more

I didn't know that the VoIP providers could provide an 1850 no., that makes it so much easier.

Just a one man band so I don't need asterisk at all.

I came across these guys quite a while ago. www.ipdrum.com I don't know however if either of their products will do the job.

Currently I have pots, BB and a Zoom X5v Modem/Router/ATA.

Was thinking along the lines of what sirlinux has suggested either with Voda or Three.

joePC

I have an 1850 no. with blueface, hundreds of calls per week, no issues. Just make sure you have a capable DSL line.

Good luck,
Joe

momozone

JoePC - with regards the 2850 i am using the onboard cards. Works fine.

With regards the mobile extension most mobile providers give you free calls to your office well i know o2 and vodafone do anyway. Using some clever dial plans you can call your office for free and login using your username and password now that call is a live extensions of your PBX, you can call internal extensions, call externally which has huge cost savings for mobiles, check voicemail, call conferencing, call transfer etc... etc...

Imagine Call from Mobile to PBX (FREE) then call from PBX to Local/National/USA/UK/Some Others 1.8cent per min.

1.8cent is alot cheaper than 16cent which it would cost to ring mobile to local/national and 1EURO to call international.

Do-more

I have found this GSM VoIP gateway
http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1272
At $290 it seems to be the cheapest available to do the job I am looking for!

For anyone making a lot of International calls from their mobile it would certainly pay for itself rapidly.

sirlinux

Do-more wrote:

I have found this GSM VoIP gateway
http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?products_id=1272
At $290 it seems to be the cheapest available to do the job I am looking for!

For anyone making a lot of International calls from their mobile it would certainly pay for itself rapidly.

thats just an analog gateway, you cna get them much cheaper than that, look for an old nokia premicell or something like that. IT doesnt do SIP.

markmck

Time to add mt 5c worth...

A little about my setup:
1 x Linux box (P4 2Ghz, 1024Mb, 1.2Tb)
1 x Irish Broadband connection (3Mb symmetric!)
1 x CAT 5e Network (around the home.. also have an 802.11g network too, copper gives me more SPEED for video serving)
1 x Aastra 9112i VoIP Phone (Thanks to Digidave.ie [ www.digidave.ie/product_info.php?products_id=180 ])
1 x ATA (Ethernet to POTS fone) [ www.digidave.ie/product_info.php?products_id=175 ]

The Linux box [ opensuse.org ] is running (among other services):
Bind (DNS server)
DHCP service
Jay's Firewall [ firewall-jay.sourceforge.net ]
Asterisk
Sendmail

For blueface you'll need to open the following UDP ports to the outside world (or Internet connection!): 5060->5070 and 10000->20000.

The linux box in a multi-homed host (ie it has two NIC's and one connected to Irish Broadband's Ethernet and the other connected to a hub and on through a patch panel to the ports around the house). The internal network has an address range of 10.0.0.0 -> 10.0.0.254 with the DHCP server making sure that the address are handed out fairly!

The ATA and Aastra VioP phone are connected to the internal network. Through DHCP and BIND these are known, on the internal network, as ata1.myhouse.ie and ipfone1.myhouse.ie.

Asterisk is easy to install.. [ a great place to start is www.asteriskguru.com ]. I've got it working well on both SuSE and Ubuntu. If you are doing a SIP only setup, you will not need to buy any interface cards, it can all be done with software!

To the asterisk config files!

There are two main configuration files that you will have to get to know well! They are the extensions.conf and sip.conf. Sip.conf is where you tell asterisk about the accounts that you want to use. The extensions.conf file is where you tell asterisk what to do with the accounts.

Lets have a look an example:
sip.conf
[general]
; this opens a sip channel from blueface's server to asterisk (to allow you receive calls)
register => <blufaceusername>:<bluefacepassword>@sip.blueface.ie

[blueface]
; this sets up the channel so you can use it in extensions.cof
type=friend
insecure=very
host=sip.blueface.ie
username=<bluefaceusername>
authname=<bluefaceusername>
fromuser=<bluefaceusername>
secret=<bluefacepassword>
context=fromblueface ; needed in the extensions.conf file

[fone1]
type=friend
username=fone1 ; this is the user name I use in the Aastra phone
secret=<passwd> ; this should be the password (clear text)
host=dynamic
context=homepbx ; the context for use in the extensions.conf file

[ata1]
type=friend
username=fone1 ; the username for the ATA
secret=<passwd>
host=dynamic
context=homepbx


Now to look in the extensions.conf file
[default]
include => homepbx ; needed to stop asterisk complaining

[fromblueface] ; the fromblueface SIP entry in the sip.conf file
exten => <bluefaceusername>,1,Answer ; First thing is to get asterisk to answer the call
exten => <bluefaceusername>,2,Dial(SIP/fone1&SIP/ata1,45,tr) ; Then ring fone1 and ata1
; for 45 seconds
; allow calls to be tx'fered
exten => <bluefaceusername>,3,Hangup ; after 45 seconds, handup
; of course we could go to voicemail....

[homepbx] ; the "internal" PBX
exten => 1000,1,Dial(SIP/fone1,30) ; then someone inside dials 1000, ring fone1
exten => 1000,2,VoiceMail(1000@mb_homepbx) ; after 30 seconds, goto voice mail
exten => 1000,3,PlayBack(vm-goodbye) ; say good bye!
exten => 1000,4,HangUp() ; and hangup

exten => 2000,1,Dial(SIP/ata1,30) ; then someone inside dials 2000, ring ata1
exten => 2000,2,VoiceMail(2000@mb_homepbx) ; after 30 seconds, goto voice mail
exten => 2000,3,PlayBack(vm-goodbye) ; say good bye!
exten => 2000,4,HangUp() ; and hangup

exten => 303,1,Dial(SIP/303@blueface) ; A fun one here.. blueface's speaking clock
exten => 303,2,Hangup ; and hangup

; Send PSTN calls to Blue Face.
exten => _X.,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@blueface) ; any other number dialed, send it to blueface
exten => _X.,2,Hangup ; finish up.


You need to read about and setup the voicemail.conf if you want to configure voicemail.

That is about it...

Some handy console commands to help you on your way!

Connect to the asterisk server with:
asterisk -vvvvr

Now you can type:
sip debug ip <ip address>
Try "sip debug ip sip.blueface.ie" to see what is going on when you get and make a call or "sip debug ip <phone IP address>" to see what is happening with the internal phones

sip no debug
This will turn it all off

sip reload
You can edit the sip.conf file in one session then type "sip reload" to get asterisk to look at them.

extensions reload
Like sip reload, you can edit the extensions.conf file and reload it with this command

sip show peers
This should show all the sip channels that are currently registered (useful to see if a phone has made a successful connection to asterisk)

Some other options that might be useful..
I can run X-lite on my laptop [ http://www.xten.com/ ] and with an addition to the sip.conf (for an account) and extensions.conf (for what to do!), I can take and make calls on my laptop!

Final few words
With this setup it is possible to to make or take one, two, three and more calls at the same time (your bandwidth will limit what you can do!... kinna neat!)

koloughlin

Here's my ultracheap setup:

Hardware
Linksys WRTSL54GS router running OpenWRT firmware and Asterisk http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1137028967848&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=6784839789B03
ipod shuffle (using it as 512 MB external drive for router, since router doesn't have enough memory to hold asterisk files in its own memory)
1 Polycom Soundpoint IP 500CS phone


Software
OS - OpenWRT White Russian 0.9 http://www.openwrt.org
Asterisk Version 1.4.4 http://members.home.nl/hans.zandbelt/openwrt/whiterussian/packages/asterisk-1.4

Setup
Cost - US$100 for router, ipod was a gift, phone is borrowed
Duration - On and off for some time :-)

black1e

Hi
I was wondering if anybody could help me with asterisk. I have only been using linux for two months - intalled Ubuntu 7.04 (the first disk) and I am trying to install asterisk. It is for my college project to have two machines connected using crossover and capture a few voip packets. I downloaded Asterix but came up with errors - think I need to get openssl and bison and a few others - like I said I have only been using Linux for a few months and hate to say it but don't even know how to get those packages or install them- so used to windows. If any body could offer me any pointers in this regard would really appreciate it as I have hit a blank wall at the moment and my first project synopsis is due before christmas
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