Jazinga Review Online At Small Net Builder
The nice folks over at Small Net Builder have put my Jazinga review up live today. There's a fair amount of picture support for the review so they've put up a slide show as well. It features a lot of…
Asterisk Implicated In FBI Security Warning
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has issues a warning with respect to the use of Asterisk to create vishing attacks. According to a post at Slashdot someone from PCWorld checked with Digium who was puzzled about the matter. Digium's…
Adding A Cellular Trunk To A Home Office VOIP System: Part 2
Originally published June 6, 2008 at www.smallnetbuilder.com
Welcome back! In Part 1, I took you through the thought process that led me to want to add cellular-based access to my home’s VoIP system. I ended up with the following project goals:
- Ensure the ability to make outgoing calls should our DSL fail
- Provide access to 911 service
- Provide access to 411 service
- Provide a low/no cost way to stay in touch when I’m traveling
- Provide a means of making oversea calls from my cell phone without paying cellular carriers oversea long distance rates
In this second and final part, I’ll focus on the little box that makes it all possible.
Jazinga Review: Asking Your Opinion
In a few days our friends over at Small Net Builder will finish polishing the stone that is my Jazinga review and post it online. I've been thinking about live support for the review in some fashion. That is, I…
Naming The Cafe At Digium
Ok, I just have to record this here as it’s too funny. Digium has a contest to come up with a name for the cafe at their new offices in Huntsville AL. This generated lots of idea, comments, Twitter traffic, etc. They settled upon “Beans & Bytes” which results in this reply:
How To Add a Cellular Trunk to Your VoIP System: Part 1
Originally published May 9, 2008 at www.smallnetbuilder.com
Our Asterisk based home/office phone system provides tremendous flexibility in handling our phone calls. It gave us the opportunity to migrate away from using analog phone lines from a traditional carrier. We now send and receive all calls via IP over our DSL. Of course, the monthly cost of our calling is a lot less. However, it’s not a prefect system – yet.
From the outset, we have worked to make the system more robust. This we have done in many ways, including providing various redundancies in hardware and configuration. Most recently, we have added a cellular trunk to ensure calling capability should our DSL service fail. The process involved in arriving at this decision has proven interesting.