[on-asterisk] Recommendations for Asterisk on Mac OS X?

[Neil Lee]

Hi folks -

I'm somewhat new to VOIP and a total Asterisk newbie and was wondering
if anyone could recommend a reasonably easy-to-setup system for
running Asterisk on Mac OS X? I'm good with the command line (if
that's the only option) but would really love a UI or some other way
to interact with Asterisk.

Currently I have two VOIP lines (Callcentric and Unlimitel) hooked
into a Linksys SPA2102 but want to try and move locally some of the
functionality a VOIP provider might offer. I don't mind getting my
hands dirty, but I'd really like to avoid getting down in the weeds if
at all possible.

Thanks!

Neil

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[Ken Brown]

Asterisk is happiest running on a dedicated machine sitting in the corner
handling phone calls.

Personally I would find an old PC and install a distribution such as
Trixbox. That comes on a bootable cd that installs CentOS (linux) Asterisk,
FreePBX and a bunch of other stuff.
There are also others that are similar such as pbx in a flash, and
unlimitel's IP-PBX.

This PC doesn't have to be fast. I run my home asterisk server on an old
300Mhz PII laptop. Low power and enough for a few extensions.

You can try this on a virtual machine, but call quality will suffer, and is
really only good for testing.

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Ken Brown
Information Systems and Communications Manager
905 829-0292 ext 233

Hi folks -

Thanks!

Neil

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