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[Vitamin_uk]

I have just got my hands on a stunning CISCO 7940 IP Phone and am wanting to set up a small asterisk box. How easy is it? Any recommendation/tips?

Many thanks

 

[XOR != OR]

I hear good things about asterisk@home, you might try that route first.

Ease of installation depends greatly on your previous experience. With both linux and voip in general. I hear A@H makes it really easy, but I've never used it so I wouldn't know.

 

[PHUNBALL]

An IP PBX for one phone, now that's not overkill... I have only used Asterisk a few times (I work with CallManager and CallManager Express day to day), but from what I have seen it is not difficult to setup...

 

[moetop]

Asterisk@home is SUPER easy to install.

Put cd in drive
boot (let it install)
reboot at the end of install
Viola you now have a PBX.

The only issue at the moment is there is NO MORE asterisk@home.. The developer(s) have renamed it and have gone a little diffrent direction. it's now called trixbox There have been a few noted install issues with the new trix box, so you may want to hunt down an old 2.8 ISO of asterisk@home which is not realy old.

Ohh ya here is the handbook for A@H

 

[AltTabbins]

An IP PBX for one phone, now that's not overkill...

Not at all

"hold on sir, let me transfer you to our other... umm.. wait.. umm.. let me put you on hold so I can answer it again and say that im a different department because I only have one phone".

pffft.

 

[Vitamin_uk]

^^^ Hheheheheh lol Im just playing.... im hoping to take it alot further... thought I would start off small see.

One phone pffttt