Novice with Asterisk

Hello!!

I just installed Asterisk in my CentOS and… it works fine. My question is that what kind of server I need to develop an Asterisk Based Server, and what else must I buy to support ip phones. Please, tell my anything I could need, and I must plug to my server, and If I need anything from my phone provider… also.

Where I plug the ip phone’s? And from that X site, I plug to the server, or what’s the way?

Thanks.

The answers to your questions are very easy, but at the same time very extensive. and those answers will bring more questions, so you have 2 options :

The hard way :
Read these 2 books.

amazon.com/Switching-VoIP-Th … 0596008686
asteriskdocs.org/

Or the easy way :

Pay for a consultancy service.