Take a look at a book called "The Future of Telephony" -- its free, but I am not sure where to get it.
on Wednesday 04/22/2009 Simon(turne...@gmail.com) wrote > hi there, > i'm looking for suggestions and guidance. I have a vps host with > gentoo on it, i dont think the vps is stable enough to ensure a good > quality of service, but it could just need an upgrade, no big deal. I > need a phone and the way i decided to go was to get a connection to > the internet and use voip or similar services. > > I've looked into several ideas, but the last one that remains a good > 'deal' is to set it all up myself, for free (but lots of work)! > > I'm thinking on setting up asterisk, but having read about it in the > past, i know as soon as i set it up it will take more of my time than > my girlfriend ever dreamed of! It seems extremely difficult to setup, > specially for a newbie, I'm wondering if you guys know of a few good > guides (that you have experience with, i can google too) for this and > if you had any suggestion, pointers, starters mostly... > > I've read those, but I'm sure there are a lot of surprises not covered > by these... > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Linux+Gentoo > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asterisk > > Thanks for any help! > > -- > When Earth was the only inhabited planet in the Galaxy, it was a > primitive place, militarily speaking. The only weapon they had ever > invented worth mentioning was a crude and inefficient nuclear-reaction > bomb for which they had not even developed the logical defense. - > Asimov -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
