Digium Asterisk Essentials Training

Introductionl
(1 chapter – 04:52) – Get an overview of the Asterisk Essentials training course, brought to you by Digium, the Asterisk company!

Asterisk Overviewl
(4 chapters – 23:30) – This short non-technical chapter offers background information about Digium and Asterisk. This context may give you a better understanding of Asterisk as a whole.

Downloading and Installing Asteriskl
(5 chapters – 31:03) – This first technical chapter helps you get Asterisk up and running quickly. You’ll learn more from this course if you have an Asterisk system handy to test our examples. It’s highly recommended to go through this chapter before proceeding with the rest of the course.

Asterisk Basicsl
(3 chapters – 31:48) – It’s not enough for an Asterisk administrator to just know which commands to run. This chapter introduces fundamental concepts related to Asterisk’s architecture and how its configuration and behavior are controlled by an administrator.

Making Your First Calll
(3 chapters – 23:43) – Follow the example in this chapter to get a SIP softphone configured to work with Asterisk. Having a working softphone installed will make upcoming dialplan examples easier to test and learn from.

Dialplan Basicsl
(4 chapters – 18:32) – A detailed description of the Asterisk dialplan is offered in this chapter. The important concepts of contexts, extensions, and priorities are each covered at length.

Asterisk Applications
(8 chapters – 23:08) – Asterisk natively offers well over 100 dialplan applications. This chapter introduces the most important categories of dialplan applications, and a few examples from each.

Interactive Dialplans
(5 chapters – 22:21) – This chapter discusses caller interaction in the Asterisk dialplan. It covers basic setup of an auto-attendant menu, as well as how Asterisk handles several types of timeouts and special extensions.

VoIP Fundamentals
(5 chapters – 32:14) – This chapter introduces basic concepts relevant to voice over IP telephony, in a protocol-agnostic way. Details of specific VoIP protocols are covered in the next two chapters.

SIP
(5 chapters – 35:15) – The Session Initiation Protocol is the most widely-used VoIP protocol today. This chapter discusses how SIP works, and its configuration and troubleshooting in Asterisk.

IAX2
(3 chapters – 16:43) – The Inter-Asterisk Exchange protocol is an alternative to SIP that is a popular way to connect Asterisk servers together. This chapter describes the protocol and its configuration in Asterisk.

Intermediate Dialplan
(6 chapters – 43:17) – This chapter builds on the Dialplan Basics chapter by introducing more robust features of the Asterisk dialplan. Topics covered include variables, pattern matching, and more.

Analog and Digital Connectivity
(5 chapters – 48:12) – This chapter introduces the details of traditional telephony that are essential to an Asterisk administrator. Analog and digital telephony each have a module covering core technology concepts, followed by a module offering step-by-step instructions on configuring a related DAHDI interface card.

Advanced Dialplan
(4 chapters – 26:33) – This last chapter on the Asterisk dialplan introduces the most advanced dialplan capabilities yet. Make sure you’re comfortable with the concepts covered in the Dialplan Basics and Intermediate Dialplan chapters before tackling this chapter.

Call Queues in Asterisk
(4 chapters – 19:26) – This final Asterisk Essentials chapter discusses how Asterisk handles call queues. In many ways, Asterisk’s queuing system is similar to others on the market. But it also has unique characteristics that should be understood before deploying any live queues.

Conclusion
(1 chapter – 02:45) – This is the end of the Asterisk Essential course. There’s just one final video that offers resources where you can continue learning about Asterisk