Welcome to the first installment of my series entitled “How Not To Do Business.” This is an editorial look into exactly how I discovered Asterisk, started NuFone and then was forced to walk away from everything.
I discovered Asterisk shortly after Mark Spencer released it back in 1999. My first thoughts were “This might be something [...]
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I am here to inform you, the reader, of a few facts that you are either unaware of or have been surreptitiously misled to believe otherwise.
Firstly, I feel I have wasted the past 8 years of my life.
After all of my blood, sweat and tears I have nothing legitimate to show for it. Sure, I [...]
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This really grinds my gears™
Apparently the worst provider ever award goes to NuFone… Well, at least according to this blog post.
This is yet another person who has chose to slant his experiences with NuFone in order to promote service from another VoIP Provider. Anyone else see a trend?
For the record, his trouble ticket was [...]
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The Asterisk Development Team has released the third beta for Asterisk 1.6.
Added an ‘n’ option to SpeechBackground to request that the channel not get answered
Added a number of new manager actions to improve configuration management over the Asterisk Manager Interface, including the ability to:
List the categories in a file.
Get the contents of a single category.
Empty [...]
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Over the next couple weeks I intend to detail the configuration and usage of the Nokia E61i phone. I have been using the E61i for a few months now. I was also lucky enough to use E61 for quite a while, so will also document some of the differences and will tell you if [...]
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Initially I was not going to say anything about this, as doing so tends to do nothing more than to stir the horrnets nest. However, I am sick and tired of people bashing my company for no particular reason. For the record I am posting this on my own personal site and it does [...]
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I recently came across Better than free? How Digium adds value to open source from Digium’s recently launched blog — Welcome to the Blogosphere, Digium.
While I agree with the points that Roderick makes about adding value to a ‘free’ software package, I believe Digium hasn’t gone far enough with Asterisk Business Edition. [...]
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If you are just getting started with VoIP, you have found the right blog. I am committed to providing relevant content to anyone that finds it.
I have an on going series called How To Configure Asterisk. This first article in this series walks you through a typical first installation [...]
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On Thursday July 26th, 2007 SunRocket customers received a 10 day notice that SunRocket VoIP services would be discontinued on August 5th, 2007.
If you are a SunRocket customer still looking to find a new VoIP Provider, I highly recommend you avoid Teleblend. According to Tom Keating, Teleblend is only a temporary solution for sunrocket customers.
I [...]
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With the recent growing popularity of VoIP, it has gotten far easier for you to run your own SIP server. There are many different open-source software packages that you can download and run at your home or office.
Today I am going to discuss two solutions that you can download and have your own SIP Server [...]
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Now that Asterisk has gone mainstream, more and more Asterisk installations are happening in home environments.
Asterisk is perfect to power a residential phone system, as the cost of entry is now very obtainable, unlike in years past. In fact, you can even run Asterisk on a Linksys WRT54G, along with many many other Linux based [...]
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Open Source now has another strategic partnership. Digium and Bandwidth.com partner to further develop open source software.
This goes to show that even more small business and large enterprises are now very much paying attention to the power of The Asterisk PBX.
I think, the best decision that I have ever made [...]
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I found a great post from Tom Keating about Asterisk Termination and ENUM, which discusses the [lack of] progress in the potentially lucrative market of Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Telephony.
From the article:
Of course, the Asterisk system uses its proprietary IAX protocol for inter-Asterisk communication and not standard SIP, so unless IAX is supported by all IP-PBXs (not [...]
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The Asterisk.org Development team has just announced the latest Asterisk Release Schedule. This should provide the initial motivation to start the process of upgrading your Asterisk PBX system.
However, in my experience migrating from Asterisk v1.2 to v1.4 does present itself with a few challenges.
For example, the CLI commands that were deprecated are now [...]
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