Category: Asterisk

Road to Highly Available Asterisk Server – Step 2 – Router. Do you need one?

So you have a basic switched network.  The next question is do you need a router?  Well if you want to have separate vLan’s, then yes, you do.  If you want a single “flat” network and keep it simple, then no, you do not.  So what are the pros/cons of each one?  Well in a [...]

Friday April 22nd, 2011 in Asterisk, Network | No Comments »

Road to Highly Available Asterisk Server – Step 1 – Solid Network

I have been using Asterisk server’s on-off for a few years.  Nothing in production, but just for small projects.  The big reason is lack of it being HA or Highly available.  There is no multiple server architecture than is easily resilient and can take a loss of a server or multiple devices and/or failures.  And [...]

Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 in Asterisk, Piaf | No Comments »

Asterisk PBX Flavor – PIAF

Here is a very good Asterisk flavor called “PBX in a Flash” or Piaf. It takes a bit of mystery out of setting up a Asterisk server. Piaf is a turn key ISO install based on CentOS 5. So if you have hardware that can run CentOS 5, then you can have a PBX. See [...]

Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 in Asterisk, Piaf | No Comments »