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Voice over Internet Protocol (Voice over IP, VoIP) is one of a family of internet technologies, communication protocols, and transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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High availability Asterisk options?

We currently run FreePBX on a single node. I'd like to have a cluster of asterisk instances for sharing the load, but mainly for failover. I'm curious how other people have solved this problem. ...
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I need to create a network for a call center [closed]

I have: a patch panel with 24 ports. Windows server voip connection (voice over ip) How do I make the connection from the patch panel to the router? Do I need a router? If yes does it need to have ...
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Can you please explain the difference between PBX and soft switch in less technical terms?

Asterisk is an open source PBX and FreeSWITCH is an open source soft switch. Source: http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117 Can you please explain the difference between PBX and soft switch in less ...
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Causes of RTP jitter at the server

Investigating some call quality issues (0.5 – 1 second dead spots in calls) I took a packet capture of a phone call between two extensions on the same PBX. Since I was capturing from the PBX, I was ...
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How should I structure a VoIP phone system?

I'm going to be setting up VoIP for a small business that is expected to grow rapidly. I don't really understand much about VoIP other than it's a telephone system that works over a regular network (...
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Register asterisk to sip trunk

I want to register my asterisk server to a SIP trunk. I have added following piece of code in my sip.conf and extensions.conf sip.conf [general] register => myusername:[email protected]....
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Logs concerning failed IAX2 registration attempt missing on Asterisk server

I am trying to register a VoIP softphone (Zoiper app for iOS) with an Asterisk installation via IAX2. At present, this results in an error message "Registration Refused (29)" on the side of the ...
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Asterisk ghost calls

Problem We have an Asterisk server hosted externally. On four locations we've gotten ghost calls. These are calls with different numbers like 1000, 9999 or 6060. We don't use these numbers, not even ...
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Remove local area code on outbound calls, and remove "dial 1" for long distance in Trixbox/Asterisk

We have Trixbox CE 2.8 and Asterisk 1.6. I want to remove the 933 area code so you can just dial 555-5555 instead of 933-555-5555 for local calls. I also want to remove the +1 for long distance so ...
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asterisk peer with SIP provider through proxy

I'm trying to make a asterisk server connect to a SIP provider (which offers PSTN origination and termination). I've been reading the great Definitive Guide, but it doesn't seem to cover the case ...
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How to remove static IP from Mitel 5312 and enable DHCP

I'm not sure this is the right forum for this question -- although I'm confident I'll be told if not! -- but I've read the fine manual (at least, such a manual as I have), I've googled and I cannot ...
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How to connect extensions of remote VOIP over remote STUN server?

Image of Architecture I am trying to setup I have configured the Asterisk server in a docker image and it's running, I have also configured the STUN/TURN server and it's also running on the same ...
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Use SQL views instead of tables with Asterisk dynamic realtime

I had hoped that I would be able to use an SQL view instead of a table to provide e.g. iaxusers and iaxpeers to Asterisk via dynamic realtime (ARA). I have just noticed that iaxpeers apparently ...
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