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Google Voice: Is the SIP and Asterisk Honeymoon Over?

Mar 30, 2009 | Comments Off

A quick recap of where things stand in the Google Voice arena as Google decides whether to emulate Skype or AOL in its quest for a share of the VoIP telephony pie…

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BroadSoft and Fonality Team Up to Offer Managed IP PBX for Service Providers (0)
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Googlified Messaging: Asterisk’s New Best Friend

Mar 25, 2009 | Comments Off

Today’s tutorial walks you through harnessing the power of Google Voice: free calling within the U.S. and free voicemail transcription for deployment with any Asterisk PBX. We’ve also set up a demo phone number and click-to-dial utility to let you experiment with Googlified Messaging yourself and review Google’s automated transcription results.

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Restricting outbound calls in FreePBX (whitelist)

Mar 21, 2009 | Comments Off

Previously, we discussed preventing outbound calls from FreePBX by using two methods: Misc Applications and outbound routes. There is also (at least) two ways to allow outgoing calls using a whitelist, i.e. allowing calls only to the numbers specified.
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Now It’s a No-Brainer: Free Skype Calling with Asterisk (0)
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A Baker’s Dozen Asterisk Nuggets from the Forums

Mar 17, 2009 | Comments Off

Some Asterisk Gold that we mined by visiting the forums: a Skype Gateway for Asterisk, CallerID Lookups from 7 providers, faxing.everything with Asterisk, A2Billing tutorial for turnkey calling card systems, Asterisk Stickies, streaming Internet radio, and more…

Tags: Asterisk, call, fax, Skype

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Introducing PBX in a Flash 1.4: The Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine

Mar 6, 2009 | Comments Off

You’re cordially invited to take the latest release of our Lean, Mean Asterisk Machine for a spin today with CentOS 5.2 (32-bit or 64-bit versions), Asterisk 1.4 or 1.6, FreePBX 2.5, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SendMail, Perl, Text-to-Speech, Faxing, Automated Backups, and more. Free downloads for Linux and VMware are now available.

Tags: Asterisk, fax, FreePBX, PBX

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Open Telephony Training in the Pacific Northwest

Mar 3, 2009 | Comments Off

Sometime early in 2006 I started building systems with AA@H. About the only inexpensive way to learn Asterisk was in the forums and blogs. It was in the Nervittles blog of Ward Mundy that I won entrance to the first Fonality trixbox® Open Communications Certification (FtOCC, pronounced “F-talk”) workshop, held in LA – March 2007.

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