Tuesday, Oct 26

Asterisk 123 is an introduction to the Asterisk telephony engine. The course objective is to acquaint participants with the installation, configuration and basic operation of Asterisk. Students will also become familiar with the ways in which Asterisk is deployed, the power and flexibility of the Asterisk dialplan, and the types of communications technologies that Asterisk supports.

Session 1 (9:00am to 10:35)
What is Asterisk?
Who created it, and why?
What can Asterisk do?
How does Asterisk get deployed?
The architecture of Asterisk

Session 2 (11:00 to 12:15)
Three ways of installing Asterisk
Compiling Asterisk from source code
Getting around on the Asterisk command-line interface
Starting and stopping Asterisk
Introduction to the Asterisk dialplan
A simple Hello World dialplan

Session 3 (1:45 to 3:00pm)
Connecting SIP phones to Asterisk
Dialing phones from the dialplan
Dialplan application
Voicemail
Dial-by-name directories
Auto-attendands, IVRs, and Voice Menus
Recording audio prompts
Audio conferencing

Session 4 (3:30 to end)
Adding logic to the system
Variables
Expressions
Conditional Branching
Question and Answer session

Presenter: Jared Smith & Derek Peloquin