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Asterisk on Mandriva

Asterisk (*) - The Open Source Linux PBX in Mandriva Linux

Asterisk related info, hardware, softwares, notes, memos and such.

1 Hardware
2 Hardware Phones
3 Software Phones
4 Notes
5 Packages in Mandriva (for x86 and x86_64)
6 Caveats
7 Why?
8 Why not?
9 Standards
10 Links
11 Numbering plans

[edit] Hardware

Where to buy Asterisk hardware in the EU?

http://shop.beronet.com/ (Germany)
- Currently they sell the "Dev Kit (PCI)" (184,44€ [incl. VAT], 159,00€ [excl.VAT]) that seems to be a good startpoint.
- If you have BRI lines you could buy the quad port interfaces by Beronet or you could buy those cheap ISDN cards by Billion. You can use PayPal for the payment and that works great! Shipping seems instant.
http://www.lanwan.fi/ (Finland, the site is Finnish only)
http://estation.dk/ (Denmark, the site is Danish only)
http://www.goods2world.com/ (England)

[edit] Hardware Phones

http://www.snom.com/ (Linux inside)

[edit] Software Phones

iaxcomm (IAX2 soft phone, make sure sound is working and asterisk is not running on the client system)
kiax (IAX2 soft phone, make sure sound is working and asterisk is not running on the client system)
kphone (SIP soft phone)
ohphone (H.323 soft phone)
linphone (SIP, RTP soft phone)
sflphone (SIP, STUN soft phone)
Microsoft Windows soft phones, which, where?

[edit] Notes

Try to stay away from those cheap X100P FXO (digium and clones) sold on ebay and all over the place. These cards may work for some, but depends heavily on the telco and its standards...
If you are into electronics you could probably build your own PCI interfaces, the schemas and specs are Open Source too, look here: http://www.zapatatelephony.org/ (this is where it all started)
Remember this SIP, IAX, VoIP, etc. technology is relatively new, and finding a good affordable "hardware" phone seems to be hard. The makers brag about this and that feature but look out for proprietary "additions" to the SIP protocol for example. The Snom 360 phone seems very cool as it uses embedded Linux inside, and that could mean endless possibilities.
ISDN Signalling is not easy. I have worked in the telecom business a short while for a company that sold ad sponsored, pre-paid, rating, systems to approx. 23+ countries all in all. (BTW. the company was named Iquity Systems Inc. (fd. Gratistel International)).
ISDN is really a pain because very few countries use the same standards... I don't speak ISDN, so please don't ask me :)
SS7 signalling? Yes, please try asterisk-chan_ss7 or the commercial asterisk version by digium, also check here: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+SS7
Are you allowed by your provider to connect your telephony hardware to their system? Check this *_before_* buying the hardware.
In the future we might be plagued by spam over the phone (voip, etc.)... No solutions (think SpamAssassin) that I'm aware of exist to prevent this other than the built-in blacklisting capabilities in Asterisk.
Current commercial IP telephony systems (Cicso, etc.) seem to have a problem in that if someone inside the company calls an emergency number (in Sweden 112) the telephone operator at the emergency center cannot trace who was calling. Pretty serious flaw if you ask me.
Is carrier grade hardware required these days?
A lot of work has been done to the asterisk packages in Mandriva. A lot of new addon packages have landed too, please check it out.

[edit] Packages in Mandriva (for x86 and x86_64)

amp - Asterisk Managment Portal (AMP)
asterisk-addons - Additional addons for Asterisk
asterisk-app_fastsms - Global SMS delivery for Asterisk, without using valuable PRI resources
asterisk-app_icd - ICD - Intelligent Call Distributor system
asterisk-app_iconv - Iconv application module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_ldap - LDAPget application module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_notify - Notify application module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_nv_backgrounddetect - Background with Fax Detection for IAX/SIP/ZAP and the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_nv_faxdetect - Fax Detection for IAX/SIP/ZAP and the Asterisk PBX
asterisk - Asterisk PBX
asterisk-chan_capi-cm - Asterisk ISDN CAPI channel driver
asterisk-chan_misdn - This module adds mISDN support to the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-chan_sccp - Extended Skinny open source channel driver for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-chan_ss7 - This module adds SS7 protocol support to the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-devel - Header files for building Asterisk modules
asterisk-docs - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-capi - Common ISDN API 2.0 implementation for Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-fax - FAX plugins for Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-odbc - ODBC plugins for Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-pgsql - PostgreSQL plugins for Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-sqlite - SQLite plugins for Asterisk
asterisk-plugins-tds - FreeTDS plugins for Asterisk
asterisk-prepaid - Prepaid and Calling Card billing modules for Asterisk
asterisk-rate-engine - Least cost routing for Asterisk, as well as CDR logging
asterisk-res_bonjour - Bonjour (aka Rendezvous, aka Zeroconf) module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-sounds - Sound files for the Asterisk PBX and telephony application and toolkit
asterisk-stat - Asterisk-Stat : CDR Analyser
asterisk-webvmail - Web frontend to voicemail
dkms-zaptel - Kernel drivers for the Zapata Telephony Interface
gsm - Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor
libgsm1-devel - Development libraries for a GSM speech compressor
libgsm1 - Shared libraries for GSM speech compressor
libilbc0-devel - Static library and header files for the iLBC library
libilbc0 - Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) library
libspandsp0 - Steve's SpanDSP library for telephony spans
libspandsp0-devel - Header files and libraries needed for development with SpanDSP
libmidcom1 - The MIDCOM SIMCO protocol and Timer library
libmidcom1-devel - Static library and header files for the libmidcom library
libiax0 - IAX (Inter Asterisk eXchange) Library
libiax0-devel - IAX (Inter Asterisk eXchange) Development Package
liblpc10_1-devel - LPC-10 2400 bps Voice Coder headers files
liblpc10_1 - The shared LPC-10 2400 bps Voice Coder Library
libmisdn0-devel - Static library and header files for the mISDN libraries
libmisdn0 - Modular ISDN (mISDN) libraries
libnbs1-devel - Development files for the Network Broadcast Sound Daemon Library
libnbs1 - Network Broadcast Sound Daemon Library
libosptk0-devel - Static library and header files for the libosp library
libosptk0 - The OSP Toolkit(tm) shared library
libpri1 - An implementation of Primate and Basic Rate ISDN
libpri1-devel - Development libraries and headers for libpri
libpri-utils - Various tools for libpri diagnostics
libtonezone1-devel - Development files for the Zapata Telephony Interface Library
libtonezone1 - The shared Zapata Telephony Interface Library
libzap1-devel - Zapata Telecom Library development files
libzap1 - Shared Zapata Telecom Library
lpc10 - LPC-10 2400 bps Voice Coder
nbs-client - Network Broadcast Sound Daemon (Client Listener)
nbs-server - Network Broadcast Sound Daemon
osp-tools - Various utilities for the libosp library
voiceone - VoiceOne is a web application to easily set up and manage an Asterisk server
xmms-nbs - NBS Output plugin for XMMS
zaptel-tools - Various tools for the Zapata Telephony Interface
asterisk-app_authenticate_ldap - Authenticate_LDAP application module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_backticks - app_backticks module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_conference - A channel-independent conference application for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_contest - app_contest module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_distributor - app_distributor module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_event - app_event module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_intercept - app_intercept module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-app_valetparking - app_valetparking module for the Asterisk PBX
asterisk-format_base64 - format_base64 module for the Asterisk PBX
gsutil - A utility to save, restore and reboot Grandstream Budgetone phones
open79xx - Open79XX XML Directory
op_panel - Flash Operator Panel is a switchboard type application for the Asterisk PBX

[edit] Caveats

In the README.MDK file for asterisk in Mandriva Linux you can read that crucial functions such as MOH (Music On Hold) require/demand/like a hardware timing device (provided by the Digium hardware). No patches I'm aware of exist to get around this (I could be wrong?). I urge you to read that file or correct me. Thanks.
As this technology is relatively new, don't expect people on IRC channels, mailinglists, etc. to help you for free. (duh!)

[edit] Why?

You want to have full control of your (company) PBX.
You want to be able to upgrade, add/remove value at will.
You are comfortable with Open Source and are used to it.
You are truly a geek, you wrote the code!.
It's just so cool and..., geeky?.
put something interesting here.

[edit] Why not?

Your telco may prohibit it.
You may find that up-scaling may not work (based on my brief research), you may find that a commercial PBX is cheaper (cpu interrups has a cost you know...).
Time is worth a lot to you. Picture yourself glued to the phone testing and evaluating...
You never use the phone.
Only geeks will use it?
Security issues.
put something interesting here.

[edit] Standards

Welcome to the world of protocols and standards, not?....
To my knowledge I know of no other Open Source software in the world that uses this many protocols and standards..., please correct me if I'm wrong.
put boring RFC's here.
put more boring info here.