"Building an Asterisk@Home Test Lab"

O’Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog - Building an Asterisk@Home Test Lab

"Learn how to build an Asterisk@Home test lab.This series is also a good howto for setting up a small production Asterisk iPBX on the cheap. This three-part series is aimed at both telephony and Linux noobs. If you understand computer networking basics, this is just the Asterisk howto you need to get up and running. Not only for a test lab, but also a small production system. The series covers installation, what hardware to use, how to set up local extensions and automatic call routing, how to connect to the outside world, and how to replace the Asterisk@Home logo with your own custom logo.

VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk - Building a Test Lab, Part 1
VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk-Building a Test Lab, Part 2
VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk-Building a Test Lab, Part 3 "
(Leached in full, but with Part 1 & 3 links fixed)

I so want a home PBX. We have a new multi-handset 5.8ghz phone system with digital answering machine which is pretty cool (as a call comes in it does text-to-speech on the incoming caller ID’ed phone number... so we don’t even have to screen the call to know we don’t want to pick it up... ;)

But still, it’s just not a cool as a home PBX could be.

The problem is that the SAF (Spouse Acceptance Factor) is pretty low in relation to a home PBX though... sigh...

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