Astiostech – Blog, News and Updates

I saw an update today on FreePBX 2.10 page that included an online fix to support the new Asterisk 10 conference bridge module called ConfBridge. Previously, all FreePBX past versions, it had always use the meetme conferencing application on Asterisk, which had some limitations as … “Asterisk 10’s Confbridge– Extend your existing PBX to support multiparty video and audio conferences with Asterisk10+FreePBX 2.10”

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[UPDATE: WORKS FLAWLESSLY WITH ASTERISK 11 TOO…On Asterisk 11, you can choose XMPP as well as the protocol, right now its just SIP:, imagine the possibilities. Also fixed the issue when failed message] [ANOTHER UPDATE FOR Offline message – We all know when devices are … “Asterisk 10 (1.10) SMS (messaging or SIP Messaging) in action”

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TechDayAsia | TechDayAsia on Facebook During TechDay Asia 2012 (in Kuala Lumpur), i presented about Asterisk but more on a business pitch. The idea of the presentation is to let people know about how to start using Asterisk in various ways without changing much from the current … “TechDay Asia – My Slides”

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Image Source: http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-restrict-access So, we had this challenge by our customer to do this as they are using PRI and supporting multiple customers. Each customer needs to be limited to n number of channels on PRI. When they were using analog that was simply straightforward, … “Asterisk / FreePBX limit incoming calls based on DID (on ZAP/Dahdi/SIP) with FreePBX”

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So I visited grandma couple of days back and while talking about work and politics and all, she asked, so what’s this Nagios thing you guys are experts at? I replied, its an “Enterprise Monitoring Solution” and she went like “Enterprise what now….”, and that … “How to explain Nagios to grandma”

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We had to create a plugin to basically do the following 1) Do a typical traceroute from the Nagios box to a destination IP 2) Instead of calculating the time between the Nagios to Destination Host, we are interested to know the time between two … “Nagios Plugin–Advance Traceroute to check between two devices”

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This is to show you how to enable pfSense 2.x and use TMNet’s Unifi. Important to note that inorder to “dial” into Unifi, you must fire the PPPoE through a VLAN and those are VLAN 500 for your regular internet browsing and VLAN 600 for … “pfSense and TM Unifi”

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Call files are perhaps one of the coolest things you can do with Asterisk. Just literally dump the file in a particular directory and voila, you can make a call. Past few days, I’ve been playing around with it quite a bit and would like … “Using Asterisk call files with FreePBX (using Local channel)”

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Assuming you have 2 FreePBX servers across two location that are connected via a trunk and the trunk dialling does work fine. Meaning you can already call SiteA and SiteB and vice-versa. SiteA: Extensions 1000 and on SiteB: Extensions 2000 and on With the default … “FreePBX IVR direct dial across multiple locations/asterisk servers/FreePBX servers”

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This weekend, i had a chance to present to Microsoft guests at their office here in Malaysia about cloud computing and focusing my talk on cloud technology security. It was clear after a while jiving with those techies and seeing their responses and also doing … “The 4th Cloud Service? – VoIP As a Service (VaaS)”

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