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AsteriskNOW 1.7.1 now available with add-on installer module for FreePBX
Asterisk NOW
AsteriskNOW 1.7.1 has been released with a new module for FreePBX that allows installation of Digium add-on software from within the web-based interface. Now there’s no command-line work to be done to get Digium’s G729 codec, Fax for Asterisk, HPEC, or Skype for Asterisk. We’ve also made some changes to make AsteriskNOW even friendlier for newcomers to the Asterisk community.
Together with the DAHDI configuration module that began shipping with 1.7.0, these modules make Asterisk administration even easier. Download AsteriskNOW today, and burn it to a CD or start it in a virtual machine. In minutes you can turn your computer into your next phone system!
AsteriskNOW 1.7 Hits The Streets
Posted by admin in AsteriskNOW, digium on June 9, 2010
Greetings, folks. As of today, AsteriskNOW 1.7.0 is available and can be downloaded from http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow.
AsteriskNOW is a quick and easy way to get started with Asterisk. It includes a basic Linux operating system, your choice of Asterisk 1.6.2 or 1.4, and optionally your choice of web-based graphical user interface (GUI). AsteriskNOW is the perfect starting point for anyone who wants to build an Asterisk-based communication system without the complexities of manually installing everything by hand.
To use AsteriskNOW, start by downloading the .iso image. To install, simply burn the image to a CD, drop the CD into the computer that you wish to transform into a phone system and boot from the disc. AsteriskNOW will ask you a few basic questions, then install itself. You’ll have a free phone system in less than 30 minutes. (Please note that it will erase the hard drive of the computer when it installs — be sure you’ve backed up anything you want to keep.)
If you’re already familiar with AsteriskNOW you might like to know about some of the improvements since the previous release. In 1.7.0 we’ve:
- Added an installation menu to give you a choice of GUIs and Asterisk versions
- Added Digium interface card detection and configuration capability to FreePBX (was already available in Asterisk-GUI)
- Re-introduced the Asterisk-GUI as an option
- Introduced an option for no GUI at all
- Updated the underlying Linux distribution to CentOS 5.5
- Updated many packages to the latest versions
AsteriskNOW Connectivity
AsteriskNOW can connect to your choice of internet telephony service providers, and can use Digium’s complete family of analog and digital telephony interface cards to connect to phones and phone lines.
AsteriskNOW Support
If you have questions or need pointers on using AsteriskNOW, check out the AsteriskNOW forums. If you’re building a production system and you need support, Digium offers technical assistance via support subscriptions for AsteriskNOW. Last but not least, if you run across an issue (a.k.a. bug) while using AsteriskNOW, please do us a favor and post it to the issue tracker: http://issues.asterisk.org (be sure to select the AsteriskNOW project).
Thanks,
Rod Montgomery
Product Manager, Digium
Straight from the Source’s Mouth: Three Insiders Speak About Asterisk
We invite all of our friends in Europe to stop by the AstriEurop exhibition taking place April 14 – 16th in the Espace Champerret in Paris. AstriEurop is the meeting place of European Asterisk© Community: The leading VoIP services providers, manufacturers, designers, integrators, distributors, carriers and more will be there to show their new products and services and to share their views on the market and future of Open Source telephony in Europe.
Mark Spencer, Russell Bryant and Matt Fredrickson will be presenting at the conference as well as joining Steve Sokol and Tristan Barnum in the Digium booth.
Hope to see you in Paris!
- Digium presentations
Open Source Asterisk: From the Garage to the Enterprise - Mark Spencer, Chairman and CTO, April 14th , 10:0Am – 10:45AM. Mark will discuss the current trend of Open Source software in the communications market. He will provide a brief history of how Asterisk has gone from a side project in his spare time to the largest open source telephony project in the world, and he will give some insight on the current market and future directions of open communications. Calling into reference several examples of large deployments of Asterisk in Europe and around the world, Mark will describe how enterprises, governments, and small businesses all benefit from the components and design of the Asterisk platform.
Advances in Asterisk’s ISDN Support – Matt Fredrickson, Software/Hardware Engineer: April 15th, 12:00 PM – 12:45. This talk will cover Asterisk’s support for ISDN. This not only will include an overview of Asterisk’s traditional supported feature set, but also will cover some advances and support for new features and ISDN supplementary services within Asterisk, particularly those that are of interest to European businesses and enterprises.
Asterisk Update: 1.8 New Features – Russell Bryant, Engineering Manager, Open Source Software: April 16th, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM. The Asterisk development community has been extremely active in 2009 and 2010. This talk will cover some of the new things that have been developed recently, what is being worked on today, and what new things are planned for the near future. The talk will be mainly focused on what will become the next major release of Asterisk, Asterisk 1.8, released sometime later this year.
Asterisk project changes Music-On-Hold provider
Asterisk The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform
As posted on asterisk.net.ru today, the Asterisk project has changed providers for Music-On-Hold (MOH) content distributed with/for Asterisk. In addition to the change for future Asterisk releases, we have also opted to rebuild historical releases with the new MOH content, in an effort to eliminate unnecessary distribution of the old MOH content.
This means that all Asterisk releases available on downloads.asterisk.org have been rebuilt to include the new Opsound MOH files, and the release branches and tags in the svn.digium.com Subversion repository have also been changed so that any checkouts from those tags/branches will include (or install) the new MOH files as well.
Finally, the AsteriskNOW RPMs available on packages.asterisk.org have been rebuilt using the Opsound MOH files.
We have tried to make the changes in a relatively convenient and painless way, but if you encounter any issues with these changes please don’t hesitate to post on the asterisk-users mailing list or create an issue on issues.asterisk.org.
Thanks for using Asterisk!
