Switching to VoIP

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complex dial-plans or for find-me-follow-me lookups and presence applications.

LDAPGet is available from http://www.mezzo.net/asterisk.

TAFM

The Asterisk Fax Manager adds fax-receiving capability to Asterisk extensions via a

set of Python scripts. TAFM users can retrieve their faxes by web interface or, with a

little programming, by email (http://tafm.sourceforge.net/).

Another fax option for Asterisk is SpanDSP, which was covered in Chapter 14.

Asterisk Perl modules

The Perl scripting language has excellent support for Asterisk, thanks to the work of

the open source community. A group of modules are available at http://asterisk.

gnuinter.net.

JAsterisk

Where you find Perl, you’re likely to bump into Java. JAsterisk is a thread-based

implementation of Java interfaces for Asterisk. It’s available from http://sourceforge.

net/projects/jasterisk/.

AstWind

AstWind is a Win32 implementation of Asterisk. It isn’t intended for production,

but rather to allow Windows users to experiment with Asterisk. Digium’s web site

states that production environments should run Digium on Linux. It was created by

N2Net and is available at ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/astwind.

Non-Asterisk

Open H.323

Open H.323 is a complete H.323 stack implemented for Linux, though a majority ...