Setting up an Asterisk server

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Asterisk is a software PBX. You can set it up on a server and connect it to VOIP gateway to make your voice calls over internet. Asterisk is the best of its kind to start up a VOIP service.

  1. Get the source

First step is to get the source of the latest version of Asterisk. You can download it here

http://www.asterisk.org/downloads

or you can check out from svn repo

Asterisk


 svn checkout http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk asterisk

DAHDI : For telephony hardware interface

 svn checkout http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/freebsd/trunk dahdi-linux
 svn checkout http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/tools/trunk dahdi-tools

LibPRI : Library for ISDN signalling ( optional – only for E1 Cards ) 


svn checkout http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/libpri/branches/1.4 libpri

Note: Run the commands as super user.

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