[General] VoIP For Home Usage

[Burhan Khalid]

Asterisk is great, but if you just want to get something running --
then AirLive has some great products and its the one we use here at
the office for a 'hack' VoIP connection. The best thing is they are
available in Kuwait.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>
> Its a normal PCI card that looks like an internal modem but with 4 RJ11
> sockets, the 4 RJ11 sockets are normally the small phone sockets we all
> know. I collected my card in NewYork but i see no reasons customs should
> give you any trouble, just tell them its a multi modem card. AFIC only
> trouble they might give you if you bring the digital E1 cards used in making
> Multi Digital PBX with hunting groups like the commercial 18xxxxx which you
> can also run it with Linux and Asterisk.
>
>  Remember to buy the FXO/FXS modules, go with one FXO and one FXS so you can
> be familiar with it although i suggest you install Trixbox or Asterisk just
> to be familiar with Linux VoIP.
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 9:23 AM
>
> Hi Faisal,
>
> Where did you buy the PCI card from? Did you have any issues bringing
> it through the customs?
>
> I saw some of Digium's cards being sold on Amazon...
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:07 AM, <kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>> Salam Majed and All,
>>
>> I use Trixbox on an old 800Mhz PII computer. Trixbox is based on the
>> famous
>> opensource VoIP application Asterisk (http://www.Asterisk.org) and the
>> famous web controlled FreePBX (http://www.freepbx.org) and the official
>> website for Trixbox you can find it here (http://www.trixbox.org).
>>
>> I have installed an Asterisk compliant PCI card (available from the
>> official
>> sponsors of Asterisk project http://www.digium.com) to extend the
>> capabalities of my small Trixbox server, it comes with a lot of features
>> not
>> known to many. if you want to compare it to a commercial level digital pbx
>> (like Panasonic?) it will outperform it along with far more features.
>>
>> If you dont like to DIY way then both Trixbox (Fonality company) and
>> Digium
>> have their own Linux based VoIP appliances, just dig in through their
>> products link.
>>
>> I hope that helps
>>
>> Regards
>> Faisal AlAbhoul
> --
>        Majed B.
>
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