PfFreeswitch + Aretta or Vonage Sphone

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on getting the new IP PBX setup, and it’s nearly done now! I’ve got freeswitch running on my pfsense firewall box, serving 3 gateways right now. Two of those gateways are vonage softphones and one is an Aretta trunk. I’m moving from Vonage to Aretta for the pure SIP and pay as you go ability. (1.9cents a min, too!) That means I can use 500 min inbound and outbound for $9 a month, plus DID fees (~2.00) and have a monthly bill of about $12 every month if i use that much. Last month i used 350 min, so, hopefully my phone bill is about to plummet from the normal $48 vonage bill. (yay!) Another nice part is that I can do remote extension (one at the lake, or my Friend Dan can have one too!). I’ve even got Dan’s sphone running through my pbx, and he dials out on my internet, which is a handy setup until he gets his own pbx, then he’ll just have an extension for free desk-to-desk calls. I’m still working on my IVRs for each incoming number and now I need to get the numbers ported, but hopefully in a couple weeks I’ll have another update saying everything is workign great A big shoutout to mcrane, a developer who is souly responsible for making pfsense run freeswitch so well. He’s been a load of help, as well as the folks on the #freeswitch IRC channel (freenode).