Re: VOIP service

[Adrian Merwood <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Asterisk is the answer im afraid.

I use Trixbox here - I seem to remember that they offer a pre-built
VM that you can download from their site.  Get hold of a copy of
VMWare Server for free and you are in business.

The snag with virtualising is the lack of hardware to hook up to a
regular phoneline.  The way around this is to use something like a
Sipura/Linksys SPA-300 which attaches one or more phone lines (FXO)
to you local network - this integrates well with asterisk and can
give you access to real incoming and outgoing call from the good old
fashioned pstn into your phone system.

I use a couple of voip providers - nothing serious yet though:

1. I use FWD (free) in the USA to dial US free phone numbers - I just
dial 1-888 etc on my phone
2. I have an account with voiptalk.co.uk

I would like to find a good IAX provider in the UK and route more
calls via them.

On the subject of devices there is also an asterisk port for the Slug
(NSLU2) I know someone in the industry who works with VoIP who is
using that for all their testing.

Adrian



On 2 Oct 2007, at 12:56, Paul Gordon wrote:

> Chaps, I'm giving consideration to getting some "proper"
VOIP
> service up
> & running, but I really don't know much about the current state of
the
> "market" (so to speak)... I've never needed or bothered to
use
> anything
> more than Skype in the past, - which has served me well enough, but
> now
> I feel I'm ready to "move up" to something more serious.
>
> I'm aware of Asterisk, but I think this runs on *nix doesn't it? - Is
> there a product(s) - both hardware & software that runs on
Windows, -
> specifically 2003 server? - This is fairly important, since I have a
> 2003 server with available capacity, and I *really* don't want to
> install an additional server to run another product on...
>
> Any pointers to online dummies guides would be appreciated...
>
> PS: - this doesn't *have* to be "UKHA Price"... :-) -
perfect
> willing to
> pay for decent, supported products!... (is that a first?)
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.
>
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