VoIP has improved a lot since its first days, today a lot of multinational business are using it as a reliable way to keep stay in touch.

With more and more telecommuters, and business man working, and with cell phone roaming costs still high, VoIP is a real option for both big and small corporations.

And when you talk to a CFO about investing to save costs, you usually will see the checkered flag for your project.

Most of these projects will involve IP phones or ATAs, but you may use softphones too, which are very convenient for the traveler guy, here we will review some of the soft phones available for Linux.

Continuing with the Asterisk setup, today we will see how to configure Ekiga to work with it, to install Ekiga, launch your package manager and use it to install Ekiga.

This time I will use a screencast to show you this how-to, this is my first try, so please be gentle if you see that is in poor quality, or if it could have been better edited, I am sure the next ones will start to improve, hope you may find this how-to useful.

Please be sure to read: simple Asterisk configuration to understand the parameters used in this video.