Where there’s will….there’s a way
a.k.a. The logic behind the third Asterisk in my home office I work from a home office. I have for over 10 years. About three years ago I gave up my last land line and went 100% voip. Since then…
Followup On My QoS / Traffic Shaping Question
Following up on the question I asked last week (Nov 9) about QoS/traffic shaping, specifically comparing a vlan vs IP range based strategy. My issue stems from the fact that I've added a number of new voip devices to my…
Why Asterisk Has Merit In The Home
This is arising from the VOIP Users Conference call of Nov 9 where someone commented to the effect that "Asterisk may not have much use in a typical home environment." I can't completely agree or disagree. It's not that simple.…
How To: Building an Embedded Asterisk PBX
Back in January of 2006 I wrote an article about my experience building an embedded Asterisk server based on the Astlinux embedded distribution and a Soekris Net4801 single board computer. Here's the link. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/24210/72/ What with all the recent enthusiasm…
How I Got Started With Asterisk: My First Asterisk Server
Back in Dec 2003 I had decided to finally take the plunge and build an Asterisk system to replace my home office phone system. I'd been tinkering with voip in various forms for many years, since using Vocaltech software over…