Asterisk Experiments
In work we have a very expensive Cisco VoIP system. Whenever configuration changes are needed it seems to take quite a while to get exactly what you want. To see how complicated this whole Voice over IP stuff is, I’ve decided to have a play around with Asterisk, the free, open-source IP PBX.
My initial playing about seems to confirm that VoIP is pretty complicated. Or at least, Asterisk is – there must be 10-15 different configuration files. I think if I can get it all working it should be quite a nice system though. It can do voicemail, do not disturb and all kinds of other cool things. I’ll write up what I come up with.
At the moment I think I need to fiddle around with the firewall on the machine Asterisk is running on to open the port up for SIP. Then once I manage to connect a phone up, I can have a go at setting up a dial plan to call between two different phones. From there I want to work on getting the server to route calls to our Freedom2Phone account that comes free with Freedom2Surf…