Posted in General on May 20th, 2009 No Comments »
After “deciding” to use Asterisk yesterday, I was talking to a friend and he pointed me to Trixbox. Trixbox is based on Asterisk but has a lot of cool things and installs in appliance mode. Basically, it looks like you install the product and it installs Linux, PHP, MySQL, etc. Can’t wait to try it.
Posted in General on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I have started reading about Asterisk the open source PBX. I am installing it at my house. Since I have Vonage I can use Asterisk to connect directly via a SIP trunk. This way I will not have to use the Vonage adapter. Katherine doesn’t see the purpose of this project. I think I just [...]
Posted in General on Oct 13th, 2008 No Comments »
After an entire year of preparation, It was finally time to switch the incoming phone circuits to the new gateways. We made the switch on a Friday night so we could have the entire weekend to fix any problems that came up.
The physical switchover was pretty smooth. On Saturday morning, I started switching the paging [...]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
When the infrastructure was complete we began issuing phones. First, we gave our department phones and trained them on all the features and what to tell the users. After that was done, we began rolling out the phones to users. We started with about 20 people at a time. We sent an extensive email out [...]
Posted in General on Jul 9th, 2008 No Comments »
This year I started my first big project at work. It was decided to convert our old PBX to Cisco IP telephony. Over the last couple of years, we have been slowly converting all of our remote offices to centralized Cisco IP telephony. Those were easy projects due to the users not knowing anything different. [...]
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