VoIP Success Story

Asterisk, VoIP, WiFi, wireless, hybrid, analog/digital, call forwarding... all done.

It's done, it works... now the fun part — adding features, source code will be available for all features.
For the history of this project, check VoIP where I explain the starting point, and what I set out to accomplish.

Note: the whole project was achieved with less than $1000, using existing machines, shopping on eBay... and obviously putting $0 value on my labor (but now that the research is done, there's so much less to do, since I publish all of my stumblings, findings, and code snippets).

What is it?

• Check out full VoIP System Description
• Real phone numbers throughout United States (California, Illinois, Washington), France, and Finland
• Local phone numbers in almost 200 locations (in 20 countries)
• Dialing into 35 countries at no cost (fixed monthly cost)
• Phones everywhere — Digital phones, speaker phones, wireless phones, analog phones... whatever is appropriate
• Call forwarding to cell phones and cabin, at no cost
• Individual extension and voicemail for everyone in the family
• A phone number/contact management system, with more features every day

And, yet... for those who are afraid of VoIP (I was...)

• I have 911 (and 411) access
• Phone calls work (inbound and outbound) if power goes out
• Quality is as good as with POTS
• Speaker phones are vastly superior to old phones
• Wireless VoIP phones provide roaming across our whole house, and neighborhood

An abbreviated list of features:

• Access numbers around the world, direct numbers in critical locales (Sunnyvale/CA, Lake Tahoe/CA, Chicago/IL, Paris/France, Helsinki/Finland, Seattle/WA)
• Additional access numbers (via extra dialing) in Dublin/Ireland, Milan/Italy, Stockholm/Sweden
• Auto attendant, allowing dialing of extension
  • During nighttime (in California), phones ring quietly (kids sleep), option for caller to override
  • Voice mail, system status, many automated features
• Blacklist, direct-route and call-forwarding all in one — see Asterisk DBget/DBput?

Other pages / tips / tricks

• VoIP The Story
• How to find out which number was called
• For much more, go to my VoIP Blog