Three Day VoIP Course

Setting Up VoIP with Asterisk

The course is intended for those who are considering or are about to install an Asterisk system.

At the end of the course attendees should be able to set up and manage an asterisk PBX. They will have enough knowledge to configure extensions and connect to ordinary exchange and ISDN lines and to the internet.

The course contains a mix of presentations and hands-on workshops. Each delegate will have their own workstation on which to carry out an Asterisk server installation and test their own configuration in conjunction with a variety of IP phones and ATA's including models from Snom and Linksys.

Topics covered include:

• VoIP Overview
• Hardware: Analogue adapters, IP telephones
• Asterisk, Trixbox, Centos
• FreePBX
• Softphones
• SIP extensions, IAX extensions
• Trunks and Routing
• Zaptel configuration
• Setting up ISDN connections
• Dial Plans
• Connecting to Information Providers
• Voicemail
• MeetMe
• Operator Panel
• Voice Recording
• NAT, firewalls and Asterisk
• ACD Functions

No previous experience of the Linux environment, Asterisk or VoIP is required. Some familiarity with a web browser and text editor would be helpful.

Attendees are welcome to bring their own hardware - do let us know in advance if you would like to do this.