Links

• Generic
  • Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX
  • DUNDi - Distributed enum lookups
  • AGI - Asterisk Gateway Interface describes a little bit how those scripts are put together.
  • Tilghman's Patches.
  • asterisk-perl - a perl collection for asterisk.
  • DUNDi-Test Network Graph - A map over the DUNDi-test peering network.
  
  
• Download sites for Asterisk
  • The Official Digium FTP site
  • Mirror in Houston, Texas, U.S. - updated 4 times daily.
  • Mirror in Dublin, Ireland - updated 4 times daily.
  
  
• Channel driver, etc.
  • Junghanns.net - The home of chan_capi, a driver for the AVM Fritz! ISDN card, and zaphfc, a driver for HFC-S based ISDN cards that do TE and NT-mode.
  • vISDN - A very interesting new approach to zaphfc and the ISDN L2 layer.
  • The OpenH323 Project provides you with libaries and H.323 applications for Linux and Windows.
  • asterisk-oh323 adds H.323 support to Asterisk. There is also chan_h323, which is part of the asterisk project.
  • chan_bluetooth - Bluetooth HandsFreeProfile support for Asterisk for AudioGateway (headsets) and HandsFree (cellphones) profiles.
  • G.729 and G.723.1 codecs - Alternate G.729 codec for Asterisk. This site also has a G.723.1 codec. The codecs from this site precompiled can be found here
  • cdr mysql howto.
  • ast-ax-snmpd - a snmp agentx subagent, ucd snmp based, for asterisk.
  
  
• Softphones etc.
  • KPhone - a SIP softphone for Linux.
  • LinPhone - another SIP softphone for Linux, adds DTMF dialpad etc. Works unstable with Asterisk for me, but others got it working.
  • Siphon - yet another SIP softphone for Linux.
  • iaxComm - a softphone for IAX2 (Inter Asterisk Exchange) that runs on Linux and Windows.
  • Verbiage Firefly - a IAX softphone for Windows. The development version works best and can be downloaded here.
  • Xten X-Lite - a SIP softphone for Windows.
  • playSIP - a command-line SIP session recorder. Allows you to record or stream.
  • A list of available hardphones for VoIP can be found at this location.
  
  
• Documentation Ressources
  • The Asterisk Handbook Project, Version 2 (Digium)
  • The Hitchhikers Guide to Asterisk
  • VoIP-Info.org is a very good resource and forum for VoIP.
  • Vovida.org is another community for VoIP.
  • Trouble with NAT & H.323, then this should help you.
  
  
• ITSPs (Internet Telephony Service Providers) and VoIP Portals
  • FreeWorld Dialup is a free SIP directory service with possibility to dial toll-free no.'s in the USA, UK, Netherlands and France.
  • CallUK let's you register for a free phoneno. in the UK, which get's forwarded to your FwdNet account.
  • IPKall let's you register for a free phoneno. in the USA (Washington state), which get's forwarded to your FwdNet account. They use asterisk themselves.
  • SipGate let's you register for a free phoneno. in Germany or the UK. This can be used for inbound and outbound dialing on a prepaid principle.
  • Musimi provides phoneno. in Denmark on a prepaid basis, for inbound and outbound dialing via sip or iax. They use asterisk themselves.
  • IAXTel is a free IAX based directory, driven by Digium, the guys behind Asterisk.
  • IPTel - Yet another free SIP directory.