I got an email tonight from a member of the Toronto Asterisk Users Group asking me what was the point of putting Asterisk on the iPhone, and I thought I’d share my initial thoughts:

First off, the project started for me as a way to play with the cross compiling toolchain for the iphone, and since Asterisk is a program I use and have written patches for in the past, it seemed like a logical choice for the first application to attempt to port. But after having it running for a few hours, I now can see it as a solid state asterisk box with 8 gigs of storage for $399 that is USB powered, so in effect, it is a fully portable PBX that doesn’t require a lot of power. Further, I could see cases were you would want to use it for demos (easier to move than a full system) or maybe for doing some IAX -> SIP trunk conversion while you are on the road. The uses are endless in my mind – if people use Asterisk on the WRT54G router, why not the iPhone?

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