I am very new to Asterisk, it was a weekend project of mine that I jumped into this weekend. I have it up and working on a box at home, and I am nearly half way through the book I purchased friday "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony 2nd Edition".
Anyway, I started this out so I could help a friend who wanted a VoIP PBX solution for his small business. I have been working with Cisco Callmanager for about 6 years now, and prior to that did help manage other PBXs as well as work on various Motorola VoFR projects as well. My friend came to me and well everything I deal with is really for larger businesses, and since I had heard about Asterisk in the past I thought it would be a good reason to finally jump into it. And what a jump it has been. Only scratching the surface with this thing and well I am very impressed with what I have seen so far. The main point for me writting others is to find out how others are using Asterisk for the home? Bit of over kill for most I am sure, and to be honest we (Wife, kid and I) don't even have a home phone anymore. After playing with this though, shesh I could have fun with it at home. :-) Thinking about getting a SIP line or trunk or something to tie into this for home usage. One of the next projects for me personally is to get a SIP client for my Cingular/AT&T 8525, it has wifi and hsdpa running Windows Mobile 6 and I am certain I have run across SIP clients before for these things. Be fun to play with and get working. So yes I am asking because I am unimaginative and need ideas on selling this to the wife. :-) That and I am just curious about what others feel are useful uses for it within the home, and what others get excited about regarding it all. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
