Archive for the ‘PBX’ Category

Sipgate hosted VoIP PBX

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Sipgate hosted VoIP PBX from ~£5 per extension

VOIPPIX discovers ELASTIX and VOIP over USB !

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

We have just discovered a VOIP distro that you can rent for £15/m from kimsufi & ovh called Elastix® !

ohloh stats suggest that the Elastix interface is mainly written in PHP and Elastix® even sell a VOIP over USB Elastibank™ Channel Bank allow you to connect to any Elastix® Appliance model via USB 2.0 eliminating the need for an intermediating PCI (the solution used by other channel banks).

Elastix® technology partners include aastra, atcom, openvox, redfone, sangoma and yealink !

There are even some Elastix videos on YouTube !

P.B.Xes FREE 2 channel Asterisk pbx

Monday, March 29th, 2010

The Android App SIPdroid recommends you access your SIP account(s) via a pbxes PBX. It turns out that as well as a hosted multi-channel Asterisk PBXs pbxes also offer a FREE 2 channel hosted PBX with a user friendly web gui that manages the Asterisk .CONF files for you !

AsteriskNow & TrixBox on VMware fusion

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Howto install AsteriskNow & TrixBox as MAC OS/X VMware fusion virtual machines / software appliances

First DO NOT choose RedHat at your guest OS or your VOIP PBX VM wont recognise the VMware SCSI disk ! You must choose RHEL5 as your guest OS so that scsi0.virtualDev = “lsilogic” is added to your guest VMX file. There’s the danger of Wizards for you !

Both AsteriskNow and Trixbox are based on CentOS 5 with linux kernel 2.6.18.

AsteriskNow has a GUI installer so you can replace the default LVM partitions with standard linux partitions if you wish.

TrixBox has a TEXT installer.

trixbox CE 2.2

Monday, April 20th, 2009

trixbox CE is an open telephony platform that combines the best of the open source telephony tools into one easy-to-install package. Based on an enhanced LAAMP (an open source bundle of Linux®, Apache™, Asterisk®, mySQL®, and PHP), the trixbox® dashboard provides easy to use, Web-based interfaces to setup, manage, maintain, and support a complete IP-PBX system.

trixbox CE can be downloaded from http://www.trixbox.org/downloads and is based off of:

  • CentOS 5.1 kernel
  • Asterisk 1.4
  • FreePBX 2.3
  • Web MeetMe 3

AsteriskNOW 1.5.0

Monday, April 20th, 2009

AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 is now available for download. Changes since beta2 include:

  • Updated several packages to latest versions (Asterisk, DAHDI, etc)
  • Fixed more permissions issues between Asterisk and httpd/FreePBX.
  • Updated to CentOS 5.3 (http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/015711.html)

FreeSWITCH PBX

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

FreeSWITCH PBX features

* Centralized User/Domain Directory (directory.xml)
* Nano Second CDR granularity
* Call recording (In Stereo caller/callee left/right)
* High Performance Multi-Threaded Core engine
* Configuration via CURL to your http server (xml_curl).
* XML Config files for easy parsing.
* Protocol Agnostic

Asterisk FAX

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Digium’s Fax For Asterisk is a commercial facsimile (Fax) termination and origination solution designed to enhance the capabilities of Open Source and commercial Asterisk as well as Switchvox. Fax For Asterisk bundles a suite of user-friendly Asterisk applications and a licensed version of the industry’s leading fax modem software from Commetrex.

AsteriskNOW Software Appliance

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Asterisk® in minutes.

AsteriskNOW is an Open Source Software Appliance; a customized GNU/Linux distribution that includes Asterisk, the AsteriskGUI™ and all other software needed for an Asterisk system.

AsteriskNOW is easy to install, and offers flexibility, functionality and features not available in advanced, high-cost proprietary business systems.