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Asterisk 1.8

A basic Asterisk v1.8 sip.conf configuration

One of the many goals I set for the students attending my Session Initiation Protocol class, is to leave them with an ability to maintain their own home Asterisk SIP PBX. After all, if you don’t exercise a muscle, it will atrophy; your SIP muscle is no different. It is only by rolling up your shirt sleeves, and diving into the fray, that you can really begin fully understand SIP (and those protocols it is accompanied by… SDP, RTP, DNS, etc).

So, my hope is that this post can take some of the mystery and apprehension out of the initial […]

Asterisk 1.8 and Alta3 Research

Professionally, I’m currently engrossed in creating a definitive publication for Asterisk 1.8 (the current release) to be released by Alta3 Research (for free) to the open-source community. Several self-training options currently exist for Asterisk; however, few actual focus solely on Asterisk 1.8 and none are worth their weight in salt.

Via my research and various deployments of Asterisk 1.8, I’ve been able to ascertain that self-training materials either: (1) require you to purchase them, (2) suffer from a lack of testing and filled with more errors than helpful information, or (3) are web-forms that can be difficult to search through […]