the cole family blarg

With a little help, I was able to build my own Asterisk PBX. At first, I wasn’t sure how practical having my own personal PBX would be, but it appears as though there are a number of cool tricks that I can take advantage of:

• multiple phones in use simultaneously
• an automated system attendant when there is no answer
• personal phone lines, and voicemail boxes
• options for forwarding the phone call to a cellphone
• voice mail is e-mailed as a wav file
• using a softphone in my laptop to bring my phone with me across the Internet
• hold music
• custom phone rings (for people who phone ME!)

I am quite excited for BabyTEL to port my phone number over. I think it will be pretty cool using this new technology.