Start Your Own Open Source-Based Telecom

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 12, 2005 @06:28AM from the or-at-least-daydream-about-it dept.

prostoalex writes "George Ou shows how with the help of open-source VOIP server Asterisk you can start your own telecommunications company for under $6000 '...you can build a phone system that can support 72 analog telephones or fax machines, 100 IP hard or soft phones on site or remote, a T1 line to the public telco for 23 simultaneous external PSTN connections, multiple IP-based IAX trunks to multiple remote offices for seamless toll-bypass 4-digit dialing, IVR, and almost unlimited voice mail for everyone - for under $6,000 in a 1U chassis. Such a price point is easily 10 or more times cheaper than a commercial alternative,' writes George."

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we use it for order status menu system by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-12 06:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

We programmed up some oracle queries called by python to do a order status menu system. It has been running great for a year now. The problem is your average joe or even run of the mill programmer ain't gonna be able to do it. Then again I am not a run of the mill programmer and have enough smarts to pull it off.