by Jeremy McNamara

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 fun and exciting to play with. I never thought I would ever do anything real with Asterisk, Boy was I wrong.

Presented at Apricot, Bali, Feb 26 2007

by Marc Blanchet

Viagénie

20+ years in IP networking and Unix, with 10 years on IPv6...

IP engineering standards(IETF):

Wrote IETF drafts and RFCs.

Co-chaired internationalized domain names (idn) IETF wg

Authoring:

Book: Migrating to IPv6, Wiley, 2006.

Cisco IPv6 course (co-author)

Tutorials on IP, security, Ipv6, etc... at many conferences, organisations

IPv6forum: co-founder, board member. North American Ipv6 Task Force:
steering group member.

Asterisk developer, co-ported Asterisk to IPv6.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Documentation

CallWithus
http://www.callwithus.com/

Asterisk Book
http://www.asterisk.org/support

FLOSS Weekly 38: Asterisk
Asterisk, an open source PBXi, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit.
Guest: Mark Spencer of Digium for Asterisk
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/twit.cachefly.net/FLOSS-038.mp3

Asterkast Install video
http://www.asterikast.com/episodes.php

http://blog.mgraves.org/2008/08/20/a-suggestion-to-asterisk-appliance-de...

The complete program (including slides) of the english track can be found here:
http://www.asterisk-tag.org/wiki/Hauptseite

New Asterisk doc's are in the works. Leif Madsen, Jared Smith, and Jim Van Meggelen are working on a new documentation for asterisk. Check it out here;

http://www.asteriskdocs.org/html/

by Dave Greenfield
If you’re like most folk, setting up a PBX is something you’d rather avoid, especially when its an open source PBX that isn’t known for its easy configuration and installation. ISPBX aims to solve the pain with its drag-and-drop configuration tool, Cogoblue.

Drag a few phone object over to a ‘viewing pane’, add a few trunks, sprinkle in a some voicemail boxes and auto-attendants and valla! You’ve got yourself a voice network. Creating an IVR tree is about the same and an infinite number of IVR trees can be nested, says John Signorello, a partner at ISPBX.

Quentin Hardy 04.10.06

Want to build a phone company for $100? Give Mark Spencer a ring.

In a research park outside the low-key bustle of downtown Huntsville, Ala. Mark Spencer finishes his barbecue and resumes wreaking havoc on the multibillion-dollar phone equipment business.

Submitted by npereira
Installing The Asterisk PBX And The Asterisk Web-Based Provisioning GUI On Linux

I have read about Asterisk and wanted to test it out as I will be managing/troubleshooting it at work anytime soon, so I thought of getting my hands dirty and getting some basic experience on it. First, I set up a box with Linux RedHat ES4 but I think any Linux distro would do. Kubuntu/Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva would work fine.

more

http://www.howtoforge.com/asterisk_pbx_linux