If this is what you need (fax/SIP/SIP Trunking/Vmail to email/Fax to email) and are willing to run on real hardware, or a virtual machine (not an embedded device), look in to PBX in a Flash along with IncrediblePBX/IncredibleFAX addon. This setup will do everything you want, and then some. It may take you a few weeks to setup and tweak to your liking, but once it's up and running, you won't look back. I cut my phone bill from $58/mnth for POTS with a few services to ~$4/mnth with everything under the sun. That savings has enabled me to buy SIP hardphones for around the house, and of course every laptop, netbook & smartphone has a client installed. We both have DISA enabled and our access line programmed as a "MY5" number, and we route all of our calls through the server at home. My cell bill went from ~$100/mnth to $48.50.
Don't skimp on the hardware, use a pc (any old P4 with 512-1G of RAM will do), embedded devices just don't have the horsepower to make a featured Asterisk server shine. From: Linuxguy123 Sent: Wed 8/24/2011 10:49 AM To: [email protected]; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Looking for ideas for nice **Asterisk** home phone system On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:36 -0700, Skyler wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:50 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > > So you have asterisk loaded on a wireless router ? Linksys 54G by > > chance ? > > > Yes, Asterisk at the moment. Cisco E3000. 54G is too small for > asterisk, not enough flash/cpu. OK. I'm a 54G guy. I just bought a E4200 the other day for our media network. > > Which VOIP phones are you using ? Which ATA are you using ? > > > I have Aastra 6731i, PAP2T, HT286 a Polycom and an Snom unit. Linphone, > Bria, jitsi work as well for PC/Mac/iPhone. Any voip device/software > would work. OK. > The wife uses call-through on her Blackberry with MY10, she adds > contacts with a pause after her voxnumber; like > 1NPANXXXXXX,personsnumber so it dials in then dials out on the trunk. We > have unlimited 60 countries so we can literally call anywhere, from > anywhere and never have to think about it. Our plans have free local calling and 20 cents a minute for "long distance". I spent $80 last week on "long distance" that would have been $12 on our home plan. To say nothing of all the other benefits. > Took me 6 months here-and-there to get it this far. Well worth it > though as we save about $180/month in cell phone bills now between us. Right. Are you using a POTS connection or SIP provider for your phone system ? > > How big is the system ? (number of lines, users, etc.) > > > Just family and tinkering. I had load tested it with SIPp simulating 10 > concurrent calls, sat at a steady 93% cpu. I'd say the E3000 would > suffice for home use, 2-3 concurrent users. We stream off the NAS > through it also and don't even notice during a call. Sounds perfect. > > How does a wireless router handle voicemail ? Ie no hard drive, so > > where does it store it ? NAS ? > > > It records to memory (flash) and sends a wav to email. Fax works the > same way. :drool: So you can receive faxes that arrive at home on the road then, as an email attachment, right ? Without having to find a fax machine while traveling and coordinating with the sender ? If we wanted faxes received on the fax machine, can asterisk recognize a fax tone and route the call to the fax machine ? Will the fax machine send via an analog connection to the asterisk system ? Or does it need its own line directly out ? What information resources did you use when setting up your system ? Thanks again for the replies. LG -- _____________________________________________________________________
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