[ILUG] Slightly OT: Setting up Asterisk PBX on my home network

[Gary Pigott]

A modem won't do the job. You'll need an FXO card. Digium (who sponsor
Asterisk) hardware is the best supported by Asterisk, but there are plenty
of alternatives (and outright clones) available. Digium's list is at
http://www.digium.com/en/products/analog/ . You can use standard phone
handsets, VoIP handsets or VoIP soft phones. Softphones and VoIP handsets
will connect to Asterisk over your home's ethernet network. You can connect
conventional phone handsets using FXS interfaces. Most telephony cards have
multiple interfaces and support both FXO and FXS connections, so you could
configure a 4 port card to connect to one phone line (using FXO) with 3
handsets hanging off it (using FXS).

<http://www.digium.com/en/products/analog/>Gary

On 26 May 2010 12:51, Mick O'Toole <mickotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Afternoon folks,
>
> Slightly off topic but I thought someone on the list may be able to help me
> or at least point me in the right direction.
>
> I have a home network set up with UPC as my ISP. I have a Cisco Router that
> supplies broadband and phone services. I was hoping to set up a PBX system
> so that I could add more phones around the house however I've no idea where
> to start.
>
> I'm unsure of what hardware I need to set this up. I have no problem
> setting
> up a dedicated *nix box and running Asterisk on it but once that is done
> I'm
> unsure of where to go from there.
>
> For those of you that are not familiar with the UPC set up there is a Cisco
> cable modem has 4 ethernet ports and 2 RJ-11 ports. The existing phone is
> connected to one of the RJ11 ports.
>
> Can I connect the RJ11 cable into an Asterisk server via a modem (or do I
> need other hardware for this) and if so how do I get other phones connected
> once this is done.
>
> I am hoping to use the existing UPC phone number and was hoping that I
> could
> do this without using services like Blueface etc.
>
> I also read on a previous ILUG thread that people were able to get their
> mobile phones to ring along with the house phone. This is something that I
> would be interested in too but my main aim is to try and get the PBX system
> running.
>
> Hope I've been clear enough with what I'm hoping to achieve and any help
> would be very much appreciated.
>
> Mick
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