An item on my to-do list for the past year or more has been to learn all about VoIP; as of this afternoon I’m pleased to say that I’ve learned enough to at least make a functioning office VoIP service work!
I’d purchased “Asterisk – The Future of Telephony” via Amazon.com early last year, my primary motivation being to work out if an all-VoIP setup was feasible for a small technology business. When the time comes for us to move offices I wanted to see if it’s possible to leave the traditional (and, in Australia, overpriced) fixed telephony network behind. It’s been around 8 weeks since I started playing around with Asterisk in my spare time, and frustratingly it soon became an obsession. The only way I managed to keep my sanity was from reading through the waves of postings on the ‘net from folks who have embarked on a similar journey, so I wanted to devote this and some future blog postings to documenting some of the challenges I faced, and most importantly how and what I did to get it working. Click to continue »