We are on the way to Astricon 2009 in Glendale AZ
and just landed in LA yesterday where we met our biz partners from ComeperIT and Yoji.

They took us to a amazing ribs lawry's restaurant. Wow it was awesome.
Thanks again for that!!

Today we wen to Venice beach for bruch/lunch and a rented a bicycle.

Here some first pictures:

Venice Beach:

Tired after 20 hours in our plane..

TomTom we would be lost without her/him...

If you use Debian 5 and "new" Dell, HP and IBM server you will most probably run into NIC driver issues.

Debian does not distribute Broadcom driver (as part of their open source policy).

During the installation Debian will not recognize the network card and ask if you want to load the driver from a removable storage device (USB Thumb-Drive).

Download the driver here and copy on your USB thumb-drive.

Done!

Cheers
Daniel

We deployed a nice and so far perfect working fax solution. I would like to share the architecture overview and main components involved.

Architecture - Overview:

- PRI Lines (E1/T1 with DID)
- FoneBridge from www.red-fone.com
- Asterisk-Server (with Freepbx)
- Hylafax-Server (with iaxmodem and Avantfax)

How does i work / flows:

On the Asterisk-Server:
- Create "normal" IAX extensions on Asterisk
- Map Inbound-Route (DID) to IAX extension

On the Hylafax-Server:

- configure one virtual iaxmodem per fax extension
(this iaxmodem registers like any other end-device to Asterisk)
- configure Hylafax (add a new faxmodem to it)
- configure a new user-account in AvantFax (GUI and Add-on for Hylafax)

What do you get out of this solution:

- Reliable faxing solution with Asterisk
- Fax will be distributed to individual e-mail addresses
- Users can send faxes from a website
- Users get confirmation / status information about outbound faxes via e-mail
(sent or not sent faxes)
- Easy administration (FreePBX and Avantfax)
- Fax archiving
- and much more... :-)

Here some print-screens:

Let us know if you like to get installation support for the solution above... ;-)

Cheers
Daniel

Intuit is one of four authorized Nagios resellers on this planet... :-)

Download: OfficialReseller.pdf

Cheers
Daniel

Can really recommend Yealink phones:

- look great (like Cisco phones)
- sound great
- lots of features
- work great with Asterisk
- very attractive in price

Cheers and wish you all a great weekend!
Daniel