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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I really think the best way to learn
Asterisk is to start with the Trixbox distribution (<a
href="http://www.trixbox.org/">www.trixbox.org</a>). You can quickly do some
very complicated things – IVR’s, extensions, trunks, etc. In the
end, trixbox just writes out the configuration into the normal /etc/asterisk files
and you can see what it’s doing. From there you can begin modifying
examples, etc. </span></font></p>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
color:navy'>-------------------<br>
Brian Vincent<br>
Copper Mountain Telecom<br>
vincentb@coppercolorado.com</span></font><font color=navy><span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>David R.<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:40
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [asterisk-users] A very
lost newbie.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here's my situation. I'm a programmer at the ISP
I work for and my supervisors have seen fit for me to become an administrator
for our new ventures into the VoIP world. All of us are relatively new at
this jazz, though naturally my higher ups have more experience than I.
We're toying with VoIP a lot in the office, and I personally feel like I'm
fairly far behind them in knowledge of it all. <br>
<br>
I've done some studying the past day or two, and I grasp the basic principles
of VoIP, Asterisk, and SER/OpenSER, and about 5% of the hardware involved in
all of it (programmer; software guy). I'd like to catch up to them as
quickly as possible so I can be of most use. Here's what I have available
to me, and what I've done so far: <br>
<br>
AVAILABLE:<br>
- A box with OpenBSD (my preferred OS for most production servers)<br>
- Asterisk installed on the box.<br>
- One IP Phone<br>
<br>
DONE:<br>
- Installed Asterisk.<br>
- Written this e-mail. :)<br>
<br>
I'm wondering where to begin. I have Asterisk installed but don't know
how to go about getting my IP phone to work with it. To start, I'd like
to make calls only internally on my home network (not even screwing with my
company's network yet; they're further along into configs than I want to get
into just yet) to a soft phone that Ubuntu Dapper Drake (my OS at home) comes
with. <br>
<br>
My question is this:<br>
<br>
Where can I find good starter documentation(s) for my purposes?<br>
<br>
Thank you,<br>
David</span></font></p>
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