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How to listen to your music on hold, Asterisk
06/28/2009 - 10:45

If you have implemented Music on Hold on your asterisk box, you may want to listen to it, to know if it is working as you want, of course you can call to your IVR number and wait for the music on hold, but it is better if you create an extension specially designed to hear to music on hold.

This is how to do it, in the extensions.conf file add these lines in the context your extension is.

How to listen to your music on hold, Asterisk
06/28/2009 - 10:45

If you have implemented Music on Hold on your asterisk box, you may want to listen to it, to know if it is working as you want, of course you can call to your IVR number and wait for the music on hold, but it is better if you create an extension specially designed to hear to music on hold.

This is how to do it, in the extensions.conf file add these lines in the context your extension is.

How to use an external Gateway with Asterisk
06/13/2009 - 08:53

The most common way to use an asterisk VoIP PBX is with an internal FXO card like Digium or Sangoma, but there are other ways, like using an external gateway like Quintum or Audiocodes to name just two of the options.

I am not an Asterisk expert, but I prefer the second aproach, as it may save CPU power on the Asterisk server, as the Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog conversion is now done in the external gateway instead of the Asterisk server.

Having said that, I will show you how to route calls to that external gateway, keep in mind that may be other ways to do this, and maybe better ways, but this is the one that worked for me.

How to use an external Gateway with Asterisk
06/13/2009 - 08:53

The most common way to use an asterisk VoIP PBX is with an internal FXO card like Digium or Sangoma, but there are other ways, like using an external gateway like Quintum or Audiocodes to name just two of the options.

I am not an Asterisk expert, but I prefer the second aproach, as it may save CPU power on the Asterisk server, as the Analog to Digital and Digital to Analog conversion is now done in the external gateway instead of the Asterisk server.

Having said that, I will show you how to route calls to that external gateway, keep in mind that may be other ways to do this, and maybe better ways, but this is the one that worked for me.

How to save a message for IVR in asterisk voip
06/12/2009 - 15:14

I have been working these last days on an Asterisk over Debian, and I will be posting some tips I am learning about it, today I will post about how to record a voice message that can be used with the IVR menu.

The IVR (Interactive voice responce) is one of the most used PBX applications, and the best VoIP PBX (Asterisk) have a real good support of this feature.

How to save a message for IVR in asterisk voip
06/12/2009 - 15:14

I have been working these last days on an Asterisk over Debian, and I will be posting some tips I am learning about it, today I will post about how to record a voice message that can be used with the IVR menu.

The IVR (Interactive voice responce) is one of the most used PBX applications, and the best VoIP PBX (Asterisk) have a real good support of this feature.

Six Linux softphone's list
04/19/2009 - 12:03

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.

Simple Asterisk configuration
04/12/2009 - 00:44

Once you have asterisk installed and running you need to configure it, to be able to use it as PBX.

Asterisk has a lot of features, and we will start to explore some of them here step by step, in this first post about configuring Asterisk, I will only show you how to configure a single two internals and make them be able to call each other, you may add more than one, as you will see later, and all of them will be able to call each others.

So lets start:

How to configure Ekiga to work with Asterisk
04/12/2009 - 21:30

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.

How to configure Ekiga to work with Asterisk
04/12/2009 - 21:30

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.