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Thu, 28 Oct 2004
Australian Personal Computer magazine this month are running a feature on Voice over IP which caught my interest. Thus inspired I visited the OzVoip website and arranged to buy a Sipura SPA-2000 ATA unit. This is a black (well silver) box that connects up to two conventional voice phones to ethernet. Signed up with SIPPhone as a trial which allows me to call US toll free numbers at literally no charge.
Tried it this morning to call into a work teleconference and worked a charm. Only glitch was that the call dropped out after about half an hour, at this stage I'm suspecting a configuration error on my part.
Next step will be to get it going with Asterisk a fully open source PBX system. This coupled with a card to connect to the PSTN (regular phone network) should allow us to seemlessly make VoIP or PSTN calls from any phone in the house. Neato!