Asterisk PBX with Hyper-V and .NET

Location: Microsoft Charlotte Campus - Mt Kilimanjaro
(first entrance, building on the right)
Speaker: Phil Meeks

In this talk, I will demonstrate the Asterisk telephone branch exchange (PBX) running in a Linux virtual machine on the Hyper-V technology of Windows Server 2008 R2. I will discuss the Linux flavors supported on Hyper-V, the Microsoft Linux Integration Components, and recent developments and directions with running Linux VMs on Hyper-V.

I will then present an overview of a working PBX, using the FreePBX package. I will demonstrate Asterisk and the FreePBX GUI, and will describe the many features and capabilities of this platform. I will give practical examples of how I have used this technology at home, using a router which integrates the VoIP and Analog telephone lines into one seamless system.

Next, I will show how to integrate .NET code running on a Windows box with the Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI), using the nAsterisk .NET library available on CodePlex. I will show you how you can call out of the Asterisk dialplan to interact with a SQL Server database and to perform just about any task in the Windows world during the course of a dialplan session.

Finally, we will save time for some general Q&A on the topics we have just discussed.

Food and drinks will be provided.