[Cialug] Asterisk

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in lay terms what is Asterisk? (other than *)




At 05:53 PM 11/3/2004, you wrote:
>I've been using Asterisk for several months now at home. Usually running a 
>version no more than a month or so old from CVS. Machine is running Fedora 
>Core 2, with the 2.6.6 kernel (custom built, not the Fedora one). 
>Unfortunately, it tends to need rebooted ever 3-4 weeks (I don't blame 
>asterisk too much, given I'm usually running a bleeding edge version). The 
>machine has a TDM400P card in it from Digium. It handles one incoming 
>line, and three internal extensions (one for fax machine, plus two with 
>plain old phones on them). Asterisk is setup as an auto-attendant, 
>requiring people to dial an extension, or '0' to ring all phones. It auto 
>detects incoming faxes, and transfers them to the fax machine (although 
>now there is the ability to deal with sending and receiving faxes in 
>software - haven't tried that yet). Only VOIP I'm doing with it is an IAX 
>connected extension I have at my office, going through a VPN between a 
>couple SmoothWall machines, and an IAXTEL number I registered.
>
>All in all, I'd recommend Asterisk very highly, I like it a lot better 
>than the 3com NBX system I use at the office.
>
>-rh
>
>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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