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| * '''Created''': [[Date(2006-04-21T12:40:02Z)]] by JackWasey * '''Contributors''': JackWasey |
* '''Created''': <<Date(2006-04-21T12:40:02Z)>> by JackWasey * '''Contributors''': JackWasey, EtienneGoyer, CoreyBurger, FabianRodriguez, JmDault |
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| The [http://www.asterisk.org/ Asterisk] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PABX PABX] system can provide impressive capabilities to Ubuntu home and business users. | The [[http://www.asterisk.org/|Asterisk]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PABX|PABX]] system can provide impressive capabilities to Ubuntu home and business users. |
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| With the increasing popularity of VoIP, provision of joined-up voice services would be a major asset for Ubuntu, especially if it installed and integrated usefully out of the box. Asterisk allows seamless use of landline phones with IP telephony which is a growing requirement for small and medium size businesses. | With the increasing popularity of VoIP, provision of joined-up voice services would be a major asset for Ubuntu, especially if it installed and integrated usefully out of the box. Asterisk allows seamless use of landline phones with IP telephony which is a growing requirement for small and medium size businesses. An easy to install and admin Asterisk on Ubuntu solution is sorely needed, as the existing tools either require you to adopt another distro or fail to provide timely updates. |
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| * Sarah installs Ubuntu. During installation her modem/telephone card is detected: Asterisk is enabled, giving her the option of a voicemail system which sends ogg audio messages to her inbox. She is able to connect her traditional telephone handset and make VoIP calls. * Aku has a bluetooth headset. His home phone line is connected to his desktop Ubuntu computer. He is able to receive calls to his landline which are routed to his bluetooth headset. * Simon's small business is replacing its windows server. With the Ubuntu server install, he finds he is also equipped with a full-featured PABX system at no cost. |
* Simon has a small business and wishes to reduce his phone costs. With the Ubuntu server install, he finds he is also equipped with a full-featured PABX system at no cost. |
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| [http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+recommendations more use cases] | [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+recommendations|more use cases]] |
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| Ubuntu desktop and server: any machine with telephony equipment. Can a simple modem provide a link to a handset? | The goal is to provide an easy to install version of Asterisk, either for connection to POTS/Copper or as a completely VoIP solution. User would be walked through initial hardware setup. As Asterisk is already packaged, coordination with pkg-voip in Debian would be needed. Further work would include packaging of the new Asterisk-GUI, as well as working on prebuilt dahdi modules. |
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| An interesting solution is [[http://www.asterisknow.org/|FreePBX]], which Debian made some efforts to build a package, but never released it. It's in the pkg-voip subversion tree. However it would require a lot of work and testing to bring the packaging up to release-quality status. Furthermore, the upstream project is in a complete rewrite (version 3.0, probably out at the end of 2010), so we should consider wether it's worthwile to work on the current 2.6 version. The [[http://www.asterisknow.org/|Asterisk Now]] GPL project by Digium, the original creators of Asterisk also provides a very nice and friendly UI wizard in the spirit of an "it just works" approach. AsteriskNOW is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Starting with the 1.5,version, the system is now based on CentOS 5.3 with AsteriskGUI, parts of FreePBX and the new DAHDI drivers. -- JmDault 2009-11-20 As of 2009-11-20, here is the status: Packages already in Ubuntu: asterisk, dahdi, dahdi-dkms. Other packages: everything is built in jmdault's ppa, waiting for review+upload by a MOTU. * Asterisk 1.6 - already in Debian experimental. Latest version is 1.6.2.0-beta4. * asterisk-gui. It's getting there, though it still has some bugs to iron out for production use. Latest version is 2.0.4.9.svn.4809 * pre-built dahdi modules: need to use 2.0 final, since the 2.0-rc5 has some kernel panic problems. Latest versions: dahdi-linux - 2.2.0.2, dahdi-tools - 2.2.0 * Use dkms instead of module-assistant to automatically compile the driver for new kernel versions * We also need to package Asterisk-addons for the MP3 module (music on hold) and the MySQL module (required for most management front-ends as well as most call center applications). Latest version is asterisk-addons - 1.6.2.0-rc1 * asterisk-chan-capi: ISDN Channel driver. Latest version (1.1.2) can be taken from Debian, but needs to be rebuilt for the new Asterisk. * asterisk-prompt-fr-june: French-Canadian Sounds by June Wallack. Latest version 1.4.15 * asterisk-core-sounds-es-gsm: Spanish sounds by Allison Smith. Latest version 1.4.15 * asterisk-sounds-extra: Extra english sounds. Latest version 1.4.9 * libasterisk-agi-perl: Perl Asterisk interface. Latest version: 1.01 * op-panel: Flash operator panel for Asterisk. Latest version 0.30 Asterisk and Dahdi would need to be included in main. See MainInclusionReportAsterisk and MainInclusionReportZaptel. Connecting analog telephone handset require a special [[http://voip-info.org/wiki/view/FXS|FXS]] interface, or an [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/ATA|ATA]] device. We could probably do the right thing with internal FXS interface and auto-configure for a regular handset, and document the configuration and use of most popular ATA, such as the Sipura/Linksys or the Digium IAXy. |
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| * [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportAsterisk universe inclusion report] * [http://www.asterisk.org/ Asterisk] * ["Ekiga"] * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PABX PABX] * [http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk voip-info on Asterisk] * [http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+recommendations more use cases] * [http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware compatible hardware] * [http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+setup+minimum very low-end hardware setups] |
* AsteriskonUbuntu/Current - Script and steps for installing and fine tunning asterisk+dahdi+freepbx on a clean 9.04 install * AsteriskOnUbuntu -- FabiánRodríguez <<DateTime(2006-10-28T03:44:13Z)>> * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportAsterisk|universe inclusion report]] * [[http://www.asterisk.org/|Asterisk]] * [[Ekiga]] * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PABX|PABX]] * [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk|voip-info on Asterisk]] * [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+recommendations|more use cases]] * [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware|compatible hardware]] * [[http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+setup+minimum|very low-end hardware setups]] * [[http://voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+home+analog|Recommendations for hardware to use to connect analog lines]] * [[http://www.trixbox.org|trixbox]], formely Asterisk@Home, provide a pretty good out-of-the-box experience * [[http://nerdvittles.com/|Nerd Vittles]] has a lot of cool Asterisk tricks |
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/asterisk-integration
Created: 2006-04-21 by JackWasey
Contributors: JackWasey, EtienneGoyer, CoreyBurger, FabianRodriguez, JmDault
Packages affected:
Summary
The Asterisk PABX system can provide impressive capabilities to Ubuntu home and business users.
Rationale
With the increasing popularity of VoIP, provision of joined-up voice services would be a major asset for Ubuntu, especially if it installed and integrated usefully out of the box. Asterisk allows seamless use of landline phones with IP telephony which is a growing requirement for small and medium size businesses. An easy to install and admin Asterisk on Ubuntu solution is sorely needed, as the existing tools either require you to adopt another distro or fail to provide timely updates.
Use cases
- Simon has a small business and wishes to reduce his phone costs. With the Ubuntu server install, he finds he is also equipped with a full-featured PABX system at no cost.
- Raoul uses Asterisk to host a conference call which his SIP/H323 provider does not allow.
Scope
The goal is to provide an easy to install version of Asterisk, either for connection to POTS/Copper or as a completely VoIP solution. User would be walked through initial hardware setup. As Asterisk is already packaged, coordination with pkg-voip in Debian would be needed. Further work would include packaging of the new Asterisk-GUI, as well as working on prebuilt dahdi modules.
Design
Implementation
An interesting solution is FreePBX, which Debian made some efforts to build a package, but never released it. It's in the pkg-voip subversion tree. However it would require a lot of work and testing to bring the packaging up to release-quality status. Furthermore, the upstream project is in a complete rewrite (version 3.0, probably out at the end of 2010), so we should consider wether it's worthwile to work on the current 2.6 version.
The Asterisk Now GPL project by Digium, the original creators of Asterisk also provides a very nice and friendly UI wizard in the spirit of an "it just works" approach. AsteriskNOW is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Starting with the 1.5,version, the system is now based on CentOS 5.3 with AsteriskGUI, parts of FreePBX and the new DAHDI drivers. -- JmDault 2009-11-20
As of 2009-11-20, here is the status:
Packages already in Ubuntu: asterisk, dahdi, dahdi-dkms.
Other packages: everything is built in jmdault's ppa, waiting for review+upload by a MOTU.
- Asterisk 1.6 - already in Debian experimental. Latest version is 1.6.2.0-beta4.
- asterisk-gui. It's getting there, though it still has some bugs to iron out for production use. Latest version is 2.0.4.9.svn.4809
- pre-built dahdi modules: need to use 2.0 final, since the 2.0-rc5 has some kernel panic problems. Latest versions: dahdi-linux - 2.2.0.2, dahdi-tools - 2.2.0
- Use dkms instead of module-assistant to automatically compile the driver for new kernel versions
- We also need to package Asterisk-addons for the MP3 module (music on hold) and the MySQL module (required for most management front-ends as well as most call center applications). Latest version is asterisk-addons - 1.6.2.0-rc1
- asterisk-chan-capi: ISDN Channel driver. Latest version (1.1.2) can be taken from Debian, but needs to be rebuilt for the new Asterisk.
- asterisk-prompt-fr-june: French-Canadian Sounds by June Wallack. Latest version 1.4.15
- asterisk-core-sounds-es-gsm: Spanish sounds by Allison Smith. Latest version 1.4.15
- asterisk-sounds-extra: Extra english sounds. Latest version 1.4.9
- libasterisk-agi-perl: Perl Asterisk interface. Latest version: 1.01
- op-panel: Flash operator panel for Asterisk. Latest version 0.30
Asterisk and Dahdi would need to be included in main. See MainInclusionReportAsterisk and MainInclusionReportZaptel.
Connecting analog telephone handset require a special FXS interface, or an ATA device. We could probably do the right thing with internal FXS interface and auto-configure for a regular handset, and document the configuration and use of most popular ATA, such as the Sipura/Linksys or the Digium IAXy.
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues
References
- AsteriskonUbuntu/Current - Script and steps for installing and fine tunning asterisk+dahdi+freepbx on a clean 9.04 install
AsteriskOnUbuntu -- FabiánRodríguez 2006-10-28 03:44:13
trixbox, formely Asterisk@Home, provide a pretty good out-of-the-box experience
Nerd Vittles has a lot of cool Asterisk tricks
BoF agenda and discussion
AsteriskIntegration (last edited 2009-12-10 21:52:23 by pool-71-254-63-126)