I thank one of my readers who left comments in one post regarding Asterisk phone software.

The question posed to me was : ” I have just discovered this new phone system software called the Asterisk, I have all analog phones and would like to know how I can connect these phones to the Asterisk. What are the building blocks? “Asterisk is a software application, that can be installed on a regular PC and it can work as your telephone switch by managing phone calls and providing business phone features.

You need to install freely available add-on cards, for phone lines and phone extensions.

You need to be well versed with computer hardware and operating systems like Linux etc., although there are some new flavours of the software to build Asterisk Based phone systems that can be setup by novices.

To setup an Asterisk Phone System, you need a PC, the Asterisk Phone Software, FXO cards for connecting your regular or land-line phone line / phone service, FXS cards to provide connections to your analog phones. You may choose to have VOIP Lines, if you want phone service from an IP Phone line provider. In that case don’t install the FXO card. These are the key components to build your own phone system. Good luck.

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