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Recent versions of Asterisk 1.6 are compatible with the Asterisk 2.0 GUI.  This wasn’t always the case, as the Asterisk GUI was developed for the 1.4 branch.  Although I wish Digium had gone for the LAMP model, the GUI is pretty good and getting better all the time.  However the instructions to install are difficult to find on the asterisk.org website.  That is, if they are there at all.  My guess is that Digium doesn’t want to make it to easy to get a free GUI.  I think this a very poor strategy, but that’s another article….  Today we will run through a quick install of asterisk and the 2.0 GUI.  A far superior option as compared to to Trixbox and FreePBX.

GOALS OF THIS POST:
- Install Asterisk 1.6
- Install Asterisk 2.0 GUI

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In my opinion the best IP business phones on the market are made by Polycom. Anyone that knows anything about the VoIP Industry knows that!  High quality Polycom desk phones combined with Asterisk are a great combination of quality/price. So to that end we’re doing this lab.

Polycom employs several methods of provisioning the SIP phones.  For general configuration Sound Point IP have an excellent built web GUI,  but for multiple phones Polycom has an XML based system as well.  Every Sound Point IP can be provisioned based on MAC address.  Polycom’s provisioning method makes use of TFTP, FTP, or HTTP to deliver firmware updates and individual phone settings.

The goals of this post:

- Configure FTP server for Polycom firmware and configuration

- Configure Asterisk SIP extension

- deploy firmware and XML configuration files to Polycom SoundPoint IP 501 SIP phone

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VoiceIP Solutions is a Asterisk ‘consulting & deployment’ company in Seattle Washington.  They deploy Asterisk solutions for businesses of all sizes.  From small offices to universities and call centers.  They have sites deployed all over the United States, but mostly on the West Coast.  I’ve been following them for some time; I guess they started deploying Asterisk before 1.2 was released.  I talked to one of their sales rep’s(I think his name was Liam) about the business and wondered if they had done any development work?  He told me that they had done some PHP work for managing larger installs and proceeded to direct me to one of there engineer/developers.

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