Our new phone system
Sorry we haven’t been updating the blog as often as we have been in the past – as always, things come up and stuff like this gets pushed to the side. But, as an update, I thought I’d talk about our new phone system today, and an introduction to how we got the Asterisk PBX up and running (I say introduction, because it’s a long process that will no doubt span multiple postings).
A while back we decided we would like to build a new phone system for Draconis – something that could grow as our needs grow, and versatile enough that could keep up with us. Our first thought was to use the open source Asterisk PBX, and as a result, we began building a phone system around this remarkable project. I’m going to give an intro to what we decided to build, but getting Asterisk up and running (especially if you don’t know a whole lot about phone systems) can be incredibly time-consuming. But, at least for us, it was also very fun.