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Page 1 of 8 Asterisk/astguiclient install from scratch. v.2.0.3
This document is meant to be a very in-depth step-by-step
explanation of installing the Asterisk open-source PBX on a Linux
system and also installing the astGUIclient suite. The instructions
will assume starting from nothing and will try to give several side
step instructions to account for some differences in choices of
hardware and software.
The actual installation that I am doing as
I write these instructions will be on the following hardware:
- Pentium 3 500MHz
- Intel motherboard D815BN
- 256MB PC133 RAM
- 80GB IBM deskstar 7200RPM Hard Drive
- Digium Wildcard Single Span T1 Card
T100P
- 2U rackmount case with 250W power
supply
- Phone hardware will be a Grandstream
BT102 and a Sipura SPA-2000 because they are so cheap and readily
available
All of these parts, aside from the Digium
card and the two SIP VOIP devices, were purchased from ebay and the
entire package(with the two VOIP devices and all server hardware
included) cost me about $1100 to put together including the phones
and Digium adapter.
We have many other Asterisk servers at our
main office, but this one can be experimented with easily because
it was so cheap to make and has a relatively small capacity when
compared with a multi-processor server with a quad span T1 card.
This is our test Asterisk server and functions well for a dozen or
so extensions in use if it were to be used in production. A size
that is optimal for many small offices operating with a fractional
data/voice T1 for instance.
For hardware you can use almost any
Pentium-class processor(PII, PIII, Athlon, Xeon, etc), and you can
use any digium telco interface card. Both of these choices will
determine what the capacity of your Asterisk server will be. If you
want to do simple IVR or conference calling and a few extensions,
then a PIII with a single Digium T1 card will work just fine for
you. If you want to use the VICIDIAL application, you will want to
get as high-powered of a machine as you can afford and get a digium
quad-span T1 card.
The following is assumed for these
installation procedures:
- You have access to a CD burner and 3
blank CDs
- You have some sort of broadband internet
connection
- You understand basic linux commands and
can use a file editor like vi
- You have all of the necessary
hardware:
- a pentium-class computer
- a digium telco interface card with
appropriate telco lines
- at least 1 SIP VOIP device
- a Local Area Network(LAN) with extra
ports enough for the new server and the number of phones you
want
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