VoIPowering Your Office: Table of Contents -
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk – Part 1: Introduction Like the idea of a feature-filled, up-to-date IP phone system but concerned about the expense of implementation? Go first class and do it yourself.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk – Part 2: Introduction continued Step one in setting up your own office PBX is dimensioning the system and figuring out how much it will cost.
VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk – Building a Test Lab, Part 1 Setting up a testing network is step one on the road to your free PBX. This shouldn't take more than an hour of your life.
VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk—Building a Test Lab, Part 3 Finally, we swap in your company logo, configure firewall settings, and connect to the PSTN.
VoIPowering your Office with Asterisk—Building a Test Lab, Part 2 By the end of this episode, your test system will be up and running and you'll be making calls.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Securing Your Server Before it becomes your working phone system, you need to take steps to make
sure that only authorized personnel (you) can access the inner workings your
Asterisk server.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Securing Your Server, Part 2 To complete the protection of your server from external attacks, you'll want to disable root logins. Here's how.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light For voice to travel over IP networks with good quality requires something akin
to the HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) lane on your local highway.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light, Part 2 The otherwise complex craft of traffic shaping is made simple by the use of
the wonderful utility Wondershaper.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Giving VoIP Traffic the Green Light, Part 3 To get maximum VoIP performance our of your network, you'll need to roll up
your sleeves and grapple with some serious Linux code and concepts. We'll help.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Getting Free Long Distance "Peering" with a centralized directory service is one way your Asterisk
server can become a gateway to toll-free calling, worldwide.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Getting Free Long Distance, Part 2 DUNDi is a peer-to-peer route-finding system architected by the creator of
Asterisk. It lets Asterisk servers share 'contact info' with other parties to
the General Peering Agreement.
VoIPowering Your Office With Asterisk: Moving to the Grownup Version To really understand Asterisk, you will need to grapple with the real thing.
That's today's mission.
VoIPowering Your Office With Asterisk: Mastering Dialplan Basics The dialplan sets up the basic nuts and bolts of how calls are processed.
To build one, you need to understand configuration files, today's mission.
VoIPowering Your Office With Asterisk: Mastering SIP and IAX SIP and IAX are protocols central to Asterisk's operation; you'll need
to configure 'channels' for/with them. Here's an intro.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Soothing the Savages with Hold Music Ever hated what you had to listen to on hold? Here's your chance to be the
on-hold disk jockey.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Hardware Mysteries Explained Understanding the ins and outs of some add-on hardware, you can easily set
up a system that provides both POTS and VoIP.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP Setting up a small voice network with both analog and IP phone service is easy.
An interface card, some software, and IP phones are all you need.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 2 In this installment, we complete configuration of the phone interface card,
register users and phones, and set up incoming calls.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 3 In which we examine the delicate matter of configuring calls to the
outside while keeping outsiders from hijacking your system.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 4 Voicemail is an essential piece of any business phone system. In this
installment, we master the basics of Asterisk voicemail.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 5 Interactive Voice Response systems require the playing of audio files.
We'll set up a player and configure the IVR to distribute calls.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 6 In this episode, we'll boost our sound recording prowess and get downright
complicated with IVR.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: SOHO VoIP, Part 7 A modest amount of programming is all it takes to auotomate Asterisk's
handling of out-of-business-hours calls—and more.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Dealing with Wanted and Unwanted Callers Asterisk can provide special handling for calls from specific individuals,
or generic nuisances like telemarketers.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Conferencing—Easy and Cheap Among its many virtues, Asterisk can manage teleconferences—either
one-off or recurring—with a minimum of hassle or overhead.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Transferring, Parking, and Hunting Re-routing calls within an organization—as opposed to simply ringing the extension initially dialed—is a vital telephony function. It's easy with Asterisk.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Call Queues "We're sorry, all our representatives are currently busy," may be an annoyance,
but it is often the appropriate way to handle incoming calls. Here's how.
VoIPowering Your Office with Asterisk: Making VoIP Calls Sound Good Jitter is an audio demon peculiar to VoIP. Here we examine its causes,
and begin to fathom its prevention.
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