Comments on How To Install Asterisk For Your First PBX Solution

the download link for libpri-1.4.9 does not exist any longer at the location specified = http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4.9.tar.gz looks like u need to grab 1.4.10.1 @ http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4.10.1.tar.gz

Instead of making all this from scratch there are ready solutions for asterisk such as trixbox or elastix.

I implemented Asterisk on Linux at a 25-person non-profit as a simple PBX where I was "the [only] IT guy."  It worked great!

Then I went to a big non-profit (2000 employees around the world) with a 50-seat call center.  This place loves Microsoft (maybe because of the 90% non-profit discount) and buys everything MS makes.  Unfortunately I couldn't recommend Asterisk over the current, expensive system (CIC by I3) because CIC actually works very well: easy for others to administer via GUI (I prefer CLI), nice reporting, ACD email, existing customization investments, reasonably well supported by many companies, etc etc. 

I say this even after a catastrophic server failure which I believe would have been much less painful on a Linux platform (compared to MS Windows 2003).

 I hope Asterisk fills this space!

Can you update us? So does your organization use Asterisk now? How do you use asterisk to receive call? How do you get DID? 

Nice Post, i will try that for sure.

Wonderful document. Well explained in step by step procedure.Thanks for sharing such a useful information.

Zaptel actually isn't recommended anymore as it has been replaced by DAHDI in May this year:

 http://blogs.digium.com/2008/05/19/zaptel-project-being-renamed-to-dahdi/

It's more than just a renaming - all development is continuing in this branch and there are quite significant changes such as file names and locations.

I dont think that all this worth the trouble.

Switch PBX and you do not have to do all this... I use Ozeki Phone System XE that has a perfect, and simple graphical user interface that allows me to configure things easily.

Here is where you can get started:  http://www.ozekiphone.com/what-is-asterisk-341.html

regards,

richard

I got really simple method to install asterisk and conect two softphones and make calls, without all this fuzz.

Give a look at http://rohu.in/easiest-way-to-install-asterisk-and-make-calls-between-two-voip-phones/

Hi,

 The url is not working. Kindly update the url or delete the post.

(1) How to log incoming caller ID?

(2) How to record conversation in a file?

After 

[trunk] type=friend context=internal host=<providers IP>how do people know what number to call?Can I use google voice number?thanks

Thank you. It is very helpful.

Dear All,

Kindly need the full steps to implement Asterisk Telephony Sysytem for a small organization with 45 users which also want to make the PSTN calls.

Please share one document where I can have the internal Phones configuration and making outgoing calls to PSTN with full Indian dial-plan.

Thanks & Regards

Azmatullah