Category Archives: VoIP

General Asterisk Installation Instructions

After reading the Asterisk Overview a few post back, let’s continue with our adventure in the world of Asterisk – the open source telephone toolkit. We need to do two things (that is, two steps) in order install Asterisk on our vmware powered Red hat enterprise server: Get the source code Compile to produce the … Continue reading

AsteriskNOW – Asterisk Out Of The Box

I recently found a nice read about a Linux Project or Distro that includes Asterisk. It contains all the Asterisk stuff one will ever need. The project is called AsteriskNOW. You can donwload the package at asteriskNOW.com. You can choose to download and ISO image or a VMWare image on the donwload page. The is … Continue reading

Asterisk Overview: An Open Source VoIP Application

Asterisk is an open source application on telephony applications and a full-featured call-processing server. It’s is one of the last technology that has been in existence too long that the open source group has touched on. There has been and open source web server (Apache), mail server (qmail, sendmail, postfix etc), proxy server (squid), CMS … Continue reading