Hi, I am very interested in VOIP and telephony in general, although admittedly, I don't know much about the theories and protocols behind it. Having also an interest in Linux, I was really excited to come upon Asterisk. I would really like to learn more about Asterisk and VOIP in general and am wondering if anyone could suggest some beginner resources? Of course I've found that the best way to learn something is to just dive in and try it, but I don't think I'm ready to tackle installing Asterisk yet. I'm running Slackware Linux on a machine which at the moment, is just hosting mail. In addition, I have accounts with both Vonage and Broadvoice. My idea is to set up a mini PBX here at home using both VOIP providers as my main lines and using my LAN to connect a few extensions. Might this be a good way to start learning, or am I way off track? Again, I am very new to this, so any info/resources/suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Steve
www.voip-info.org ! -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Steven M. Sawczyn Sent: 04 July 2004 19:53 To: Asterisk-Users Subject: [Asterisk-Users] looking for newbie resources Hi, I am very interested in VOIP and telephony in general, although admittedly, I don't know much about the theories and protocols behind it. Having also an interest in Linux, I was really excited to come upon Asterisk. I would really like to learn more about Asterisk and VOIP in general and am wondering if anyone could suggest some beginner resources? Of course I've found that the best way to learn something is to just dive in and try it, but I don't think I'm ready to tackle installing Asterisk yet. I'm running Slackware Linux on a machine which at the moment, is just hosting mail. In addition, I have accounts with both Vonage and Broadvoice. My idea is to set up a mini PBX here at home using both VOIP providers as my main lines and using my LAN to connect a few extensions. Might this be a good way to start learning, or am I way off track? Again, I am very new to this, so any info/resources/suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Steve _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
www.voipbox.de, EN lang blog for news etc On Jul 4, 2004, at 8:53 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:> Hi, I am very interested in VOIP and telephony in general, although > admittedly, I don't know much about the theories and protocols behind > it.
On 04/07/2004 at 14:53 Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:>Hi, I am very interested in VOIP and telephony in general, although >admittedly, I don't know much about the theories and protocols behind it. >Having also an interest in Linux, I was really excited to come upon >Asterisk. I would really like to learn more about Asterisk and VOIP in >general and am wondering if anyone could suggest some beginner resources? >Of course I've found that the best way to learn something is to just dive >in >and try it, but I don't think I'm ready to tackle installing Asterisk yet.In which case, http://www.automated.it/asterisk/ You'll find a link there for my Asterisk Live! CD (it's a test version, but feedback so far has been favourable)> >I'm running Slackware Linux on a machine which at the moment, is just >hosting mail. In addition, I have accounts with both Vonage and >Broadvoice. >My idea is to set up a mini PBX here at home using both VOIP providers as >my >main lines and using my LAN to connect a few extensions. Might this be a >good way to start learning, or am I way off track? > >Again, I am very new to this, so any info/resources/suggestions greatly >appreciated.You could also try http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm to get you going... The wiki has useful info too http://www.voip-info.org Andy