Deploying your first Asterisk system can be a frustrating task, espcially if you attempt to utilize the more advanced features and functions of Asterisk without having a solid foundation of the basic concepts. This article will walk you through the process of downloading, compiling and configuring your first instance of Asterisk that will allow […]

On Feb 22nd, 2007 subscribers of the OpenSER users mailing list were informed that a SER/OpenSER Configuration generator is now available.
This is an excellent tool for those looking to quickly configure OpenSER v1.1.1 for their own VoIP Services. Currently his configuration generator supports basic routing, far-end NAT traversal using either rtpproxy or mediaproxy and […]

Over the next few weeks, I intend to document various methods that one can use Asterisk to solve their communication issues. The first installment will document a simple working PBX platform for a typical single household system.
Future topics in the How To Configure Asterisk Series may include:

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ars technica has informed us that NVIDIA released a compiler to offload math function to GPU.
This is an interesting concept that should allow unique new DSP-like implementations using commodity hardware. Granted I haven’t studied the specifics, yet, however it seems that Voice and Video Codec implementations could benefit from the complex math operations […]

Brian Robinson asked, “What’s So Great About Asterisk?” What makes Asterisk so great is the fact that Mark Spencer released his code into the GPL, which sparked the creation of a dedicated community of contributors who continually strive to make Asterisk more complete and reliable. Then Digium’s relentless push to improve Asterisk has ensured […]

I am excited to report that a very significant and lingering bug in the Zaptel channel driver of the Asterisk PBX has been resolved. With hardware from The VoIP Connection and development assistance from Matthew Fredrickson, a long time Digium Employee, we were able to specifically recreate and ultimately eliminate this bug using non-production hardware.
We […]