[KLUG Driftwood] [Asterisk-Announce] Asterisk 1.2.0-beta1 Released

[Todd Pillars]

awilliam at whitemice.org wrote:
>> The first beta of Asterisk 1.2.0 has been released! It is available from
>> the ftp.digium.com FTP servers, as well as the Digium CVS servers (under
>> the 'v1-2-0-beta1' tag).
> 
> 
> And they finally redesigned they horrible website.  
They must have _JUST_ done that! When I was up there it was still the 
old site. Looks good though.

> And look at this "The new
> Asterisk web site is powered by the Drupal content management system."  
> I guess we picked a winner
Guess so
> - its everywhere.
Seems to be picking up a bunch of steam... let's see if it can escape 
the Mambo fate. Drupal seems to be much more stable and laid back.

> 
>> This version of Asterisk represents a significant improvement in
>> features, stability and compatibility over the 1.0.x releases. Some of
>> the major new (or upgraded) features include:
>>     * Asterisk Realtime Architecture
>>     * Asterisk Manager Interface
>>     * Asterisk Extension Language
>>     * Dialplan functions
>>     * More powerful dialplan expression parser
>>     * Portability enhancements for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X
>>     * ... and many more!
> 
> 
> What is the status on stations?  The PCI/FXS interfaces are still pretty
> expensive, and it is hard to tell about the myriad ethernet handsets for 
> sale. 
They do have a developers kit, although it is twice as much as the old 
one ($195), but it is infinitely better - the USB FXO dongle sucked. Any 
way you look at it the full (4 port) pci cards start at $350

> Does anyone review or evaluate handsets?
There are some reviews on voip-info.org. The handsets are listed on 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones and the reviews 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=VOIP+Phones+Reviews

> 
> How do things like the "Sipura SPA-1000 VOIP Adapter, SIP, 
> Asterisk,phone" work?
> Since there are scads of those for sale on e-bay very cheap.  Does anyone
> review or evaluate handsets?
There is another site called voxilla.org, they seem to have a sipura 
users group 
http://voxilla.com/forum-viewforum-f-14-sid-4d17abc039fb484b9b417f51b2a5fbac.html

There are just a ton of links from viop-info.org so that may be a good 
starting point (and a reference for the driftwood page :)

Todd