On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting
with
Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's "Switching to VoIP") talks
about a "Grandstream Budgetone" - what's an Australian equivalent?
You can buy a Grandstream VoIP phone from the site below;
http://www.techtopia.com.au/index.php/cPath/36_60
What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with the
POTS? The book mentions "Digium X100P".
techtopia also sells Digium cards.
I know I don't need both; I want to experiment. I attended the SLUG
talk
on VoIP - back then a lot of it didn't make sense so I didn't take
notes :-)
You don't need both, and you don't need either for testing. You could
just grab a usb or audio headset and install a softphone (aka
softwarephone) which can use the headset for conversation using your
computer. But it means you will be able to test the asterisk setup
without the need to buy any hardware just yet. Of course this test
will not allow you to hook up your existing landline to the asterisk
setup.
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