FreePBX / Asterisk on Raspberry PI

BCS Northamptonshire Branch

Date: 30th October 2014

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VOIP Technology

VOIP Technology

o Advantages of VOIP systems consumer and

business

o VOIP Services

o VOIP trunks

o VOIP telephones

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VOIP Advantages

o Functional integration of services

o Physical decentralisation of services

o Enhancement of services

o Open source

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VOIP Services

o Telephony / FAX o Videophone -

G722, G711, G729

H323

o Video Conferencing
o Cloud PBX
o IVR recording/automation
o Surveillance

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VOIP Trunks

SCCP
Skinny Call Control Protocol

o Designed for use by Cisco Call Manager (now CUCM)

o Proprietary but has some support within asterisk

o Only used for telephone/videophone devices

o Useful for exploiting features on Cisco phones

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VOIP Trunks

SIP
Session Initiation Protocol

o Significant industry investment well standardised

o Multimedia
o Not an optimal design for networking
o The dominant VOIP networking and switching protocol
o Security issues - many ports requires session border

controller

o Difficulties traversing NAT requires session border controller

o Poor layer 2/3 separation difficulties on errored call clear-

down.

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VOIP Trunks

IAX2
Inter Asterisk eXchange Protocol

o Purpose designed as a trunk protocol - Asterisk

project

o Limited investment in early stages of standardisation

o Few but increasing IAX/IAX2 service providers
o Multiple calls and signalling over single L4 port

connection

o Easy NAT traversal - NO session border control

required

o Voice and Video calling using recognised codec

standards

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Raspberry PI Build and Configuration

Raspberry PI Build and Configuration

SD card build and hardware

o Complete image for 4GB SD card available

o Instructions on -

http://pbxbook.com/voip/raspbxmac.html

o Standard PI - no special additions or modifications

o Cisco phones available on Ebay 7911, 7941, 7961,

7971

o Phones powered via injectors or POE switch IEE 803.af

o PSTN line connected via analogue to SIP adapter

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Configuration

o Configured by FreePBX web interface or low level Asterisk

files.

o Trunk configurations SIP / IAX2

o Extensions setup using Asterisk files requires TFTP and
DHCP.

o Major part of configuration is the dialling plan

o Phones powered via injectors or POE switch IEE 803.af
o Other services possible - DISA, IVR, Conferencing etc.

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FreePBX Demonstration