Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Rob Schall
We wanted a cheap last resort fail-over. A few really cheap pots lines are easy to run buy, as we can get them for a really low cost. My understanding with DIDs (and its limited), is they have to belong to a PRI. The only way that is cheaper than a few pots lines is if you needed 8 or more pots

RE: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Don Pobanz
Rob Schall wrote: My understanding with DIDs (and its limited), is they have to belong to a PRI. DID can be delivered over a PRI, a channelized T1 or over analog trunks. If you use the analog route method, you can get any number of trunks. The only way that is cheaper than a few pots

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Sean M. Pappalardo
Alex Balashov wrote: Sure, it's called a DID trunk. It's basically just a regular analog phone line but the CO switch sends down the digits dialed in one of a Sean, I am curious--what do these look like these days? Are they ordinary T1s? CAS/robbed-bit? Do these just use the signaling

RE: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Jeremy Mann
:19 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help We wanted a cheap last resort fail-over. A few really cheap pots lines are easy to run buy, as we can get them for a really low cost. My understanding with DIDs (and its limited

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Sean M. Pappalardo
Rob Schall wrote: understanding with DIDs (and its limited), is they have to belong to a PRI. The only way that is cheaper than a few pots lines is if you needed This is not true, since analog DID trunks do exist. I was hoping for a solution more along the lines of Use this x variable

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Alex Balashov
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Sean M. Pappalardo said something to this effect: Give a call to your phone service provider and ask to speak with a technical group. I do not share your optimism about the revelation this would entail. :-) But thank you! -- Alex -- Alex Balashov [EMAIL

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-23 Thread Rob Schall
: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help We wanted a cheap last resort fail-over. A few really cheap pots lines are easy to run buy, as we can get them for a really low cost. My understanding with DIDs (and its limited), is they have to belong to a PRI. The only way that is cheaper than a few

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-22 Thread Alex Balashov
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Sean M. Pappalardo said something to this effect: Sure, it's called a DID trunk. It's basically just a regular analog phone line but the CO switch sends down the digits dialed in one of a few ways: Dial pulse (DP), Multi-freq (MF), Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF). They

Re: [asterisk-users] FXS + Pots Extensions Help

2007-05-22 Thread Sean M. Pappalardo
Rob Schall wrote: Normally I just use pri's with our asterisk systems, but a request came in to add some normal pots lines to the setup. We have 3 lines, and they run into the fxs ports. They hit the dialplan just fine, and they always dial the s extension. However, my question would be... Is