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Here’s a pretty good write-up on how you can use Jingle with Asterisk for “calling” over Google Talk.
This is cool stuff.

• You could have calls coming into work (Asterisk server) ring your office phone twice and then try your office and Google Talk client simultaneously.
• You could get a call at home that your wife answers. She knows you’re not home, but sees that you are on IM. She could transfer the call to your laptop and the caller would have no idea that you are in a hotel in Las Vegas.
• You could put all your geeky buddies with Google Talk accounts on speed-dial.
• You could place calls from anywhere you have an Internet connection and route them through your Asterisk server at home.
• You could have Asterisk IM you with the caller ID of the person calling you.

Did you notice all of those points say “you could”? I have not tried this yet, but when I do, I’ll report.

Look for full Jingle support in Asterisk 1.4. Until then, you need this patch.

P.S. I wrote about Asterisk/Jingle/Google Talk in this earlier post when I first learned that it was being worked on.