[Asterisk-Users] What setup

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Sending the message 3 times within 7 minutes wont get you responses
any faster than just sending it once.

Welcome to asterisk. Put your seat belts on and get ready for a few
weeks of reading, testing, and caffeine. Here are my recommendations
(assuming you want to set it up alone, otherwise just get the Business
edition from digium.com):
1. Read, read, and read again
2. Test, test, and test again
3. Don't give up.
4. When everything fails, start at 1 again (or try this list :)
5. Get a T1 card anyhow for your system, even if you will stay with
POTS, use a channel bank, or if you want you can use SIP gateways.
6. Try not using asterisk at home or the like, it will just make sure
that you never know asterisk (I know some people here are going to be
all over me for this one), well sort of. In any case this only applies
if you want to *know* asterisk.
7. A few days/weeks/months down the road when you have made it far
enough to be able to jump into an argument of asterisk at home vs
asterisk from source, come back here and help other people :), and
setup your system for production. Make sure:
A. Your dialplan is clean (no duplicate extensions, no overlapping
extensions, secure contexts, and easy to add, delete extensions, easy
to modify extensions in just one place, like a macro)
B. Your Linux distro is one that you know well enough to handle if
anything outside asterisk goes wrong.
C. Your Linux distro is one that *you* trust for being up as long as
there is a power failure.

Here are some URLs to get you started:
http://www.asterisk.org/ ; well the asteirsk site
http://www.voip-info.org/ ;the wiki
http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ ;the asterisk docs project
http://www.digium.com/ ;digiums site
http://lists.digium.com/ ;the list archive
http://bugs.digium.com/ ;the bug tracker for asterisk, I find this
very helpful to see what an app is suppose to do to get it working
before the docs are out, or to write up the wiki for an app :)
in addition to the above you can search the lists using google, by
entering site:lists.digium.com as part of your search term.


I hope this helps

On 12/28/05, John Crew <jcrew20 at go2netmail.com> wrote:
> I am an Asterisk newbie and don't have any
> telecom experience.  I do know some about Linux
> and Windows as a sysadmin of Windows servers.
>
> I need to know what hardware to buy to replace a
> broken PBX.
>
> I have currently:
> -CBeyond as my carrier
> -16 port Cisco router with analog "termination"
> (not sure on terminology) into the building
> -Broken PBX:  analog AT&T Merlin system (not sure
> on model #, but could get it)
> -Second PBX:  analog AT&T Merlin system
> -8 extensions (~14 if you include the second AT&T
> Merlin system serving our other business)
> -2 DIDs (~4 if you include our second business)
> -14 analog phones
>
> So, what are my options?  I am looking for the
> cheapest/best solution.  I could switch to a
> digital PRI or CAS line from my telco as another
> option, but I assume I would need to switch both
> PBXs and all phones to digital as well in that case.
>
> I need auto-attendant and music on hold,
> especially.  Are these easy to set up?  I
> installed Asterisk @ Home and it is running, but
> I need to RTFM to configure it.  I could lose 1
> DID for the faxing if we did fax-to-email.
>
> Please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Sent by Go2net Mail!
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