GrandCentral via Asterisk

[Lisa Kachold]

Yea Howdy!

Trixbox ala Kerry Garrison is a really easy PBX setup (complete with everything you need for an AutoAttendant, Voicemail, Fax, CMS, dial around and through apps)  that installs from an ISO:  http://www.trixbox.org/downloads
 
Kerry Garrison offers easy to follow videos here: asterisktutorials.com  - search for trixbox.

Simple setup How-Tos exist at voip-info.org

Course you can get a fine PSTN SIP trunk from axvoice.com for $9.99 a month or buy FX0 cards for a phone line (or lines).

You can buy a drop and dial asterisk based configuration from Jim Rhodes over at Rhinoequipment.com.

I think my name is still on some of the bash scripts for the Trixbox 2.0 release from contributions?

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:19:24 -0700
Subject: Re: GrandCentral via Asterisk
From: jd at twingeckos.com
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Asterisk is the engine that enables pstn/voip connectivity (think linux kernel).
Asterisk when bundled with other open source software can do all the things GrandCentral does and more provided you give it the connectivity it needs to do so (PSTN or voip).  A good place to start is with PBXInAFlash (pbxinaflash.org).


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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Kurt Granroth <kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:

I know that there are some people on this list that use Asterisk a

decent bit.  Those that do... are you familiar with GrandCentral?  If

so, how do they compare?



http://www.grandcentral.com/home/features



I really like the control that something like GrandCentral gives you.

The ability to choose where you receive a call (home, cell, work, etc)

based on who is calling or when they are calling is a killer feature for me.



Alas, there are just too many potential gotchas with that service to

really commit to it other than as a play-thing (or as a number passed

out freely to businesses and warranty cards and the like).  What I would

like is that kind of control... but in a way that *I* control it all!



So no calls being routed through a 3rd party server; no voicemails

stored on their server; no need to upload all of my contacts to a search

company; etc.



Asterisk seems like it might be able to do all that... but who can tell?

 Their site is horribly disorganized and when you do find a "feature"

page, they spend all their time in an acronym frenzy.



So... does anybody know?



Kurt




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