Welcome to the first installment of my series entitled “How Not To Do Business.” This is an editorial look into exactly how I discovered Asterisk, started NuFone and then was forced to walk away from everything.
I discovered Asterisk shortly after Mark Spencer released it back in 1999. My first thoughts were “This might be something [...]
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I am here to inform you, the reader, of a few facts that you are either unaware of or have been surreptitiously misled to believe otherwise.
Firstly, I feel I have wasted the past 8 years of my life.
After all of my blood, sweat and tears I have nothing legitimate to show for it. Sure, I [...]
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Now that Asterisk has gone mainstream, more and more Asterisk installations are happening in home environments.
Asterisk is perfect to power a residential phone system, as the cost of entry is now very obtainable, unlike in years past. In fact, you can even run Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54G, along with many many other Linux based [...]
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The Asterisk.org Development team has just announced the latest Asterisk Release Schedule. This should provide the initial motivation to start the process of upgrading your Asterisk PBX system.
However, in my experience migrating from Asterisk v1.2 to v1.4 does present itself with a few challenges.
For example, the CLI commands that were deprecated are now [...]
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OpenSER is a flexible, mature and stable SIP communications server. However unlike Asterisk, OpenSER requires extensive knowledge of the SIP Protocol and presumes nothing about your configuration or method of deployment.
I am basing this configuration on OpenSER v1.1.1 which is currently considered the most ’stable’ version. Although v1.2 has been released, I am going [...]
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