Application LCDial
Posted: July 16, 2005 Application LCDial() – Least Cost Routing / FailOver application for Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 Description LCDial is a very powerful and versatile solution for Least Cost Routing/FailOver which gets information about call routing from 2 tables stored into…
Read More »Asterisk SS7
Posted: July 15, 2005 Background information In simple terms SS7 is the suite of protocols used by all major telco networks for interconnecting their public telephone exchanges. There are many telecoms platforms which only support SS7 and if you want to connect…
Read More »Asterisk Extension Matching
Posted: July 15, 2005 Dialplan Extension Matching “Match As You Go” dialing occurs in three situations: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) menus. This is the name given to any situation where Asterisk has answered a call and has (probably) played some tone or…
Read More »Grandstream Handytone-486
Posted: July 15, 2005 HandyTone-486 Ports 1 Power (5V) 1 RJ45 WAN 1 RJ45 LAN 1 RJ11 FXS 1 RJ11 PSTN (Not a true FXO -not usable via SIP, only used as a fallback for power failure, etc) Basically this is the…
Read More »Asterisk Download
Posted: July 15, 2005 Latest Release The current release version of Asterisk 1.4 is 1.4.15 (Released 2007-11-29) The current release version of Asterisk 1.2 is 1.2.25 (Released 2007-11-29) (Current versions of Asterisk might be of help) You can download either one from…
Read More »NPA-NXX
Posted: July 14, 2005 North American Numbering Plan The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) governs the management of telephone numbers for the Public Switched Telephone Networks in North America (Canada, USA, Carribean, and territories) within the international country code prefix ‘+1’. North…
Read More »Causes of Echo
Posted: July 14, 2005 It’s most likely your echo is caused by the far-end point. The loudness of the echo on VoIP calls is no worse than PSTN calls. The difference is that because of the inherent delay induced by VoIP, echo…
Read More »Asterisk Connecting to the Cellular Network
Posted: July 14, 2005 chan_celliax Celliax is a GPL channel driver for Asterisk, chan_celliax. runs on Windows and Linux manages GSM and CDMA cellular phones through an adapter, composed by a serial data cable (for commands) and an audio cable (for the…
Read More »Asterisk bounty FreeBSD zaptel
Posted: July 14, 2005 This page is outdated. See here for the current working zaptel drivers on FreeBSD. BOUNTY: FreeBSD Zaptel Drivers Maintainer: Troy Opening date: Status: Open Total value: Contributors: gunk ($250), chris coleman ($250), jtodd ($100 + $50), fgravato ($200),…
Read More »Asterisk cmd PrivacyManager
Posted: July 14, 2005 Synopsis: Require phone number to be entered, if no CallerID sent Description: PrivacyManager If no Caller*ID is sent, PrivacyManager answers the channel and asks the caller to enter their 10 digit phone number. The caller is given 3…
Read More »Asterisk mark echo canceller
Posted: July 13, 2005 Echo cancellation in Asterisk — ECHO_CAN_MARK This echo canceller is a simple Least Mean Squares Echo canceller with DoubleTalk detection. It has no Residual Error Supressor, nor does it have a high-pass filter. It’s based in part on…
Read More »Asterisk IAX authentication
Posted: July 13, 2005 This page attempts to document the process that Asterisk uses to authenticate incoming and outgoing IAX2 connections. To go directly to setup instructions, see instead “configuring IAX clients“. Reference to “type=user” in the text below should be assumed…
Read More »Asterisk sip md5secret
Posted: July 13, 2005 SIP.conf: device configuration – md5secret Syntax: md5secret=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the md5hash of “<user>:asterisk:<secret>” Description: Use this option if you don’t want to have plaintext-passwords in your sip.conf. You can build the md5hash with echo -n “<user>:<realm>:<secret>” |…
Read More »Pilmo
Posted: July 13, 2005 Using the Pilmo Gold service with Asterisk In this example setup I’ll describe two things:– how to connect Asterisk to the Pilmo Gold service– how to configure Asterisk and iptables to be able to use their locked Voicefinder…
Read More »Asterisk Email to Fax
Posted: July 13, 2005 Sending faxes via e-mail If you want to be able to send an email to a phone number without generating a call file, or logging into your Asterisk server, check out Asterisk Fax for a package which accepts…
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