Posts Tagged ‘asterisk’

What is VOIP or IP Telehony

Very basic/Simple explenation of VOIP.”What is VOIP?” I have seen this question many times before. VOIP is a network/Internet based telephony protocol. What this means is; A phone system that works over the internet or office/home network. Why would you want VOIP?The primary reasons is; money savings. No more third party costs for PABX, use [...]

Freepbx GUI for Asterisk install

Here is a quick installation guide how to install Freepbx on your system. This is basically the same for Ubuntu, Suse, Gentoo and Centos. You would need to install the basics, Gcc compiler, Apache, Mysqld, Kernel Sources, Ncurses, Php, curl. Follow the simple steps. cd /usr/src wget http://mirror.freepbx.org/freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz tar zxvf freepbx-2.9.0.tar.gz cd /freepbx-2.9.0 ./start_asterisk start [...]

Snom 300 business VOIP/SIP phone

The Snom 300 is a good entry level business VOIP/SIP phone that works great with Asterisk. It’s well priced, rugged, small LCD screen and has a lot of features. One of  most handy features of the phone is that it can accept Auto Provision. (Settings is looked up after it received a DHCP address based [...]