Comments on: Asterisk – My Quick Installation Guide

By: Asterisk – CDR Logging in MySQL | bahjons.com

Asterisk – CDR Logging in MySQL | bahjons.com — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:40:40 +0000

[...] edit the ‘cdr_addon_mysql.c’ and compile/recompile Asterisk-Addons. If you followed my quick installation guide, you will do the [...]

By: Asterisk – Leaner is Meaner! | bahjons.com

Asterisk – Leaner is Meaner! | bahjons.com — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:38:59 +0000

[...] is my updated installation guide. This approach will be alot different than my previous installation guide. What’s different? For one, I’m using the latest and greatest Asterisk version: [...]

By: Asterisk – Realtime Installation Guide 1.4.x | bahjons.com

Asterisk – Realtime Installation Guide 1.4.x | bahjons.com — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:59:10 +0000

[...] Realtime. You are going to begin by installing Asterisk. You can check out my quick install guide here. Once you have that all complete, you will want to make sure that MYSQL is running. So we can start [...]

By: Author

Author — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:09:54 +0000

You are correct. For example, the sound packages are now available when ‘make menuselect’ when you compile the latest 1.4.x or 1.6.x versions of Asterisk. I’ll see about updating my command lists today. Thanks!

By: mimi

mimi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:06:58 +0000

hi,
Some of the packages below don’t exist anymore on ttp://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/ is it possible to download any of the existing ones???

By: mimi

mimi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:12:45 +0000

Hi Author,
thank you for you answer.Well i guess i changed my mind, i’ll just install the asterisk on Ubuntu especially for a biginner like me it would be much easier to just follow the steps on the tutoriel which is the greatest ever thank you again ))

By: Author

Author — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:38:18 +0000

Hi Mimi,

I’m not actually sure on AsteriskNow, how to setup realtime. I’ve never used it. Perhaps post in the Digium Forums for assistance?

By: mimi

mimi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:04:45 +0000

Hi,
This tutorial is really helpful ,thank you very much..
well i am working on asteriskNOW and i am veeeeery debutant and by debutant i mean i’ve never worked with asterisk itself but i am asked to make it work on realtime …My question is : what exactly should i install if i am working on AsteriskNow ??… well i didnt find asterisk-addons shoud i just install it ?? is that the only thing i need to make the other tutorial about realtime asterisk work perfectly??
thanx in advance ..:)

By: Author

Author — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:27:43 +0000

Jimi,

What version of Asterisk are you using? and version of Asterisk-Addons?

By: Author

Author — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:51:38 +0000

Hi Arc,

Thanks for your questions.

The above example is a single server install. The number of agents you can have running on the server really is going to depend on the hardware that you choose, number of concurrent calls, codec used and bandwidth available, etc. If you are using SIP trunking with your carrier, you aren’t required to purchase additional cards/hardware, and you may be able to handle more concurrent calls if you have the bandwidth to support it.

In my example above, I mentioned using a P3 server. Without doing any call recording, you could probably handle a couple dozen agents, and 10-20 concurrent calls depending on the bandwidth available and codec used.

Call recording is a different beast altogether. I will try to post an article about call recording when I can. There’s several ways you can go about recording, and several supported formats. ulaw, gsm, wav are the common ones. I like wav for easy conversion to MP3.