[Asterisk-biz] Help with learing Asterisk for the real world..

[Tom Rymes]

On Dec 8, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Robert Webb wrote:

> Hi all, hope this is not too off topic, but thought it fit better  
> here than any of the other lists.
>
> I am in the IT field with some telecommunications background  
> knowledge. Mainly learning from when my father worked for a telco  
> and from keeping up the old Nortel PBX here at work. My issue is  
> that where I am employed they have no plans on the drawing board of  
> every trying to go VoIP, espicially from an open source solution as  
> they are Microsoft finatics, because they will not justify the cost  
> nor the resources to research by buying hardware and testing.
>
> So here is my delimma. I am running asterisk in my home running  
> asterisk at home. I have no need for any of the advanced dial plans  
> and setups like there are out there in the real world. But I want  
> to gain more knowledge in setting up asterisk and programming it  
> dial plans. I cannot afford T1 cards and other expensive gear off  
> my persoanl budget.
>
> Can anyone give some insight as to a good direction to go to try  
> and learn all this. I will be finishing my MIS degree in August  
> 2006 and then want to concentrate on learing some C programming so  
> I can understand what is going on behind the scenes. It is just  
> lately between school and work I have not had time to pick up  
> trying to learn C and asterisk.
>
> Sorry if too off-topic and no, I am not trying to get someone here  
> to offer me a job. Only some insight into understanding and being  
> proficient in setting up some real systems.
>
>
> Regards,
> Robert Webb

Robert,

If you want to learn dialplans inside and out, your first step should  
be to ditch Asterisk at home and work to rebuild the same functionality  
yourself from scratch. I like Asterisk at Home, but it is best suited  
for those who want a solution that "just works", not those who want  
to dig in and really learn the nuts and bolts of dialplan logic.

Once you have done that, you ought to have a decent idea of how to  
work with dialplans.

Tom

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Tom Rymes
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