[Cialug] Asterisk

[Nathan C. Smith]

It was Nufone that really sold me on Asterisk with their super cheap LD and
IAX support.  It was a 'leet PBX to me until you add the VOIP long distance
factor.

I'm hoping to make it virtually invisible to the family except that the
answering machine will go away and we will be able to do a  lot more "cool
things"  After 9 PM the phones will only ring where adults are and not where
kids are sleeping etc, cell phone rings simultaneously and voicemail
messages get sent to work.

I hope Dave will agree to continue to let me help him get it rolling in
phases at work.

What voip devices are you using?  I think I will probably go with a mix of
Grandstreams and Sipura.

-Nate



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:16 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Asterisk



What's the difference between home and work? ;)

It's taken a bit of adjustment on my wife's part, but it's running all 
the phones in the house.  I also have extensions that go to an asterisk 
server running at another location where other partner's phones tie in 
to the network.

I even have a wisip (wifi voip phone) that attaches to a particular pbx 
depending if I'm on my home network or randomly on the internet (to 
conserve bandwidth on my home dsl connection).  The only step I haven't 
taken is to buy phone service from someone like a voicepulse 
(http://connect.voicepulse.com/) for long distance calling.

I've been working on a web application that will allow multiple people 
to join a conference and record a session (with other audio clips, etc) 
for uses such as podcasting or live streaming.

-Tom


On Nov 3, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> I agree.
>
> So you are using it at home/at work?  Both?
>
> I'm a couple tweaks and a few $$$ away from using it at home and 
> giving Vonage the boot.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom@tcpconsulting.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:47 PM
> To: cialug@cialug.org
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Asterisk
>
>
>
> Asterisk rocks!
>
> -Tom
>
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
>>
>> How many people on the list are using/experimenting with Asterisk 
>> (http://www.asterisk.org)?  I know Dave W. is familiar with it, 
>> anybody else?
>>
>> I'm trying to get a system going at home and I wonder if anyone else 
>> "around here" has already done it.
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>> Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667 
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