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Useful video on how to install Asterisk on a PC.

  • 19-03-2007 4:17pm
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    For those new to VoIP - don't worry about this! If you just want to use VoIP with one or two phones - you don't need any of this. Asterisk is a free software PABX used mainly by people who want to have a home or office PABX running VoIP telephony. It runs on Linux and can provide voicemail, connect directly with VoIP carriers (such as Blueface etc) over a broadband connection. It can also connect to the ISDN (basic or primary rate access) as well as the PSTN (though with poorer sound quality).

    While Asterisk works fine if you need to support multiple VoIP phones in a home or small business with voicemail etc (or even a big business), you can also use it to build a global virtual private phone network. eg you dial 306 from your home in Ireland and the phone in the master bedroom in your villa in Gstaad rings with the call routed over the internet, free. Your secretary can use the same system to route outside calls to you when you are there - and callers will assume that you are at work in the office! The possibilities are endless.

    You can also use it with GSM2/UMTS/SIP/WiFi mobile phones of which Nokia have several on the market. While they use a mobile phone in this demo, it is just a regular antiquated American cellphone and the call goes over the cellphone network rather than a WiFi connection using SIP.

    The video is in MPEG4 format. If your Windows machine won't play it when you click on the file after downloading it, download Quicktime

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

    which will install a free MPEG4 codec on your machine via Apple Quicktime 7. (While this video isn't in HD format, you'll need an MPEG4 codec to watch HDTV on your PC anyway).

    The video netcast is presented by the video podcast beer drinking Kevin Rose (of diggnation.com fame) - not a beer in sight on this show however.

    .probe

    video: http://revision3.com/systm/asterisk

    ps: it is probably worth downloading the configuration files they supply while you are waiting for the video to download. If you have one of eircom's new 25 Mbits/sec DSL connections, it will only take a few minutes!

    [update - I have just opened the config files after downloading them last night - they appear to just contain some html error stuff for some reason.]


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