One of the most popular activities at any modern office office is the conference call. Of course as time and technology allows, the conference call has morphed into audio/video/web conferencing. When you’ve only got one person on each side of the “call”, it really doesn’t matter what hardware or software you use… or the call [...]
Archive of posts filed under the VoIP category.
Recording high quality voice prompts for Asterisk
Recently I’ve found myself setting up a new Asterisk box, which is oddly one of my favorite tasks. IP Telephony (or VoIP for the rest of us) is quite fun to play with. Office phones and IVRs are something that everyone uses. It’s really nice to see something you have built used day in and [...]
Dial-Peers on Cisco 3600
When I setup the Cisco 3600 in the office to work with asterisk as our FXO ports, I needed incoming and outgoing capabilities. In was easy enough, but out was more tricky because you need to setup specific dial-peer plans. Well for the longest time I had 3 different sets of rules per port (911, [...]
NuFone
NuFone is once again trying to screw me over – this time for 7cents. I dont belive these people, more specifically that one person. I’m preety sure NuFone is just one person. Their service is really bad, and I cancled it after a week of using it last… January. I cancled my account then I [...]
Silly 7960′s
Brought a new 7960 online today in the office – and it paper weighted itself. It loaded up the Universal Application Loader, but then refused to load the new SIP firmware. I found two things that are useful, first Voip-info.org has a useful bit and second – pay very close attention the the TFTP server [...]
When working with Cisco
If your making changes you want latter – Suggestion: Always write the configuration to memory. We haven’t been using our old voip router recently (newer gear for cooler stuff), so I was playing with it a while back (you may remember FXSs are a go! ) – Except I forgot to save my changes to [...]
Sigh and DoubleSigh
Surfing the RSS feeds this morning and I found two new intresting topics to bitch about in the wide wonderful world (WWW) of technology. First off is a moving article from ars technica, about the new Google mobile search. Ars’ first and foremost has a problem picking a side, their poking at it claiming that [...]
Asterisk Goodies
So this bit was posted on /. . I thought I’d relate the information seeing how its rather nifty guide. Kerry Garrison used Asterisk@Home (which I’ll admit I’ve never heard of before, But I’ve seen it done similar before) to build a PBX. I think the real key of this installation is that A@H comes [...]
FXS’s are a go!
Well its amazingly difficult to find documentation about how to make FXS’s work with Asterisk. I happen to have 4 FXS ports on the Cisco 3640, the same one that has four FXO ports. Below I’m including my configuration for use by others. The FXS port is configured as extension 600 (the Asterisk side configuration [...]
Yea for PBX’s
So several months ago I moved our small office over from a Windows 2000 box running some Microsoft built-in IP telephony software, to an Asterisk PBX. Now I’ll admit I knew almost nothing about Asterisk, or Cisco hardware. Since then I’ve made major strides. Yesterdays project was to see if I could get a Cisco [...]
