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asterisk

Using the Linksys SPA-3102 as a VOIP ATA

12 March 2009

In other blog entries I’ve been discussing a larger project of setting up a personal Voice over IP (VOIP) Asterisk server using the Linksys SPA-3102 VOIP gateway device. An ATA (Analog Telephone Adapter) allows one to use old fashioned phones on a voice over IP network, or you can just use IP phones. An ATA [...]

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Personal VOIP/PBX using Asterisk, part 2

19 January 2009

This is part two of my series on how to set up an asterisk server for home use on a Linode VPS — but is applicable to any host that doesn’t have additional hardware telephony devices installed in the server. Please refer to Part 1 for how to set up the dummy timing module. Also, [...]

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IP Telephony Codecs

17 January 2009

My first stumbling block when installing and trying to get Asterisk PBX working were the codecs and mismatching. If both ends of a connection can’t negotiate the same codec, the call won’t complete. I grabbed the recommended asterisk config for gizmo5 and when attempting to place a call to my gizmo call-in number which should [...]

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