what can voip do?

May 31, 2005 3 Replies
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is there away to route calls.



lets say, if someone from area code 222 calls phone number 555-555-5555 to foward these calls to 723-222-2222 but uf the area code is 232 calls the same number 555-555-5555 to forward these calls to 333-333-3333?



can this be done


Sure, if you're running Asterisk or something similar you can handle and route your calls any way you want. This isn't so much about VoIP per se as about having control over what happens with your phone calls, which happens to be much easier (cheaper) with VoIP.

miguel

yes, I know it was not only a voip thing, but since this is a voip forum. were can I download a windows install of Asterisk?

Nowhere - it's a unix program. If you have an old computer lying around and you don't need anything that's currently on its hard drive, you can download a CD image that will automatically install Linux and Asterisk onto it.

Well, actually you can download it from the link on this page:

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but what it actually does is dynamically set up a fake little virtual Linux environment when you run it.

miguel

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