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== Motivation ==
=== Motivation ===
* Being able to have developers call me with my fedoraproject.org SIP address.
* Being able to have developers call me with my fedoraproject.org SIP address.
* Being able to call developers using my normal phones without a land line.
* Being able to call developers using my normal phones without a land line.
* Being able to have other people call me using POTS through Fedora Talk.
* Being able to have other people call me using POTS through Fedora Talk.


== Why Asterisk? ==
=== Why Asterisk? ===
I have an analog tdm card that needs the dahdi driver as the zaptel driver will not work on the recent kernels. Callweaver in Fedora does not yet work with dahdi. I am not aware of other software that will work with my hardware, though there are some other choices if you are just going to use SIP.
I have an analog tdm card that needs the dahdi driver as the zaptel driver will not work on the recent kernels. Callweaver in Fedora does not yet work with dahdi. I am not aware of other software that will work with my hardware, though there are some other choices if you are just going to use SIP.

Revision as of 06:30, 9 June 2009

Motivation

  • Being able to have developers call me with my fedoraproject.org SIP address.
  • Being able to call developers using my normal phones without a land line.
  • Being able to have other people call me using POTS through Fedora Talk.

Why Asterisk?

I have an analog tdm card that needs the dahdi driver as the zaptel driver will not work on the recent kernels. Callweaver in Fedora does not yet work with dahdi. I am not aware of other software that will work with my hardware, though there are some other choices if you are just going to use SIP.