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.

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http://www.howtoforge.com/asterisk_pbx_linux

Open Source VOIP will be bigger than Linux according to Jon “Maddog” Hall of Linux International as quoted by ZDNet UK.

“I predict that over next three years, VoIP using an open-source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” said Hall. “Today’s PBX solutions are incredibly expensive, closed source and proprietary. Asterisk is approximately one-tenth of the price of a proprietary PBX system.”

Hello fellow * lovers. I am new to asterisk so I started this site to help others find information and help. Here is my simple dialplan;

[globals]
OUTBOUNDTRUNK=SIP/username
[general]
static=yes
writeprotect=no
[default]
exten => s,1,Answer()
exten => s,n,Wait(2)
exten => s,n,Background(greeting)
exten => s,n,WaitExten()
exten => s,n,Voicemail(2000@default,u)
exten => s,n,Hangup()
exten => s,102,Voicemail(2000@default,b)
exten => #,1,Hangup()
exten => i,1,Goto(s,5)
exten => h,1,Hangup()
exten => t,1,Playback(vm-goodbye)
exten => t,n,Hangup()