User guide

services to digitally excluded areas, while promoting the creation of community operated and managed
telephone networks.
The samples files that we included are intended to serve as a guideline to get your first telephony
system up and running. No document can replace anyone else's experience, so be patient. Your
perseverance is key for (your) success. You are not alone – you can always ask for help in many online
forums and share your unique experience with others. Welcome to a booming community of VoIP
enthusiasts!
We want to hear (from) you. VoIP us!
12. Appendix A: Making IP Telephony knowledge
accessible.
A pre-study of innovative approaches. Software distributions.
Virtualization and dedicated appliances
12.1 Introduction
One year ago (December 2006), we released the first edition of the VoIP4D Primer “Building Voice
Infrastructure in Developing Regions”. It is interesting to see how many things have already changed in
one single year in the VoIP arena and we are not far from plug-and-play open telephony systems. VoIP
is advancing quickly and setting up a PBX is getting easier and easier for the end user thanks to new
user interfaces and dedicated software distributions. There is lots of interest in this area, proof of that
is that the primer has been downloaded 150.000 times and included as reference material in several
VoIP courses.
While the first edition of the primer focused on understanding the principles of VoIP and illustrating a
few scenarios that you can use as a reference to configure Asterisk by editing their configuration files,
in this document we will cover some of the projects that want to make the installation and management
of Asterisk even more user-friendly.
The goal of this pre-study is to identify which technologies are there that can reduce the gap from
newcomers to get started with VoIP.
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