This is not a dumb question. Most of the other replies I have read mentioned various ways to connect to the pstn. I wanted to mention why it makes sense to do that. Many of the companies I have installed asterisk for didn't even have their system on a network with a gateway. They have dedicated networks built for the phones and the Asterisk server acts as a dhcp, ntp and ftp server as well as the PBX. The only devices on the networks were phones. They use it as a really nice phone system and use "old fashioned" termination.
-Jonathan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Marcus > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:38 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dumb question - reaching the PSTN > > Hi everyone, > > I am fairly new to the idea of VoIP, although I've been reading about it > off and on for the last few years. Now it is starting to look mature > enough to consider implementing it, but there is one thing that I > haven't been able to get a clear answer on... > > With Vonage, you are using the Vonage network - it is their > responsibility to route your call to the endpoint, which is more than > likely on the old fashined PSTN. > > If I install Asterisk, how do my calls actually get completed? How do > they get 'bridged' over to the PSTN? > > I attended a Seminar today hosted by Dynasis, and one of the issues was > VoIP. ShoreTel was there, and the said I had to have phone lines, > whether they were POTS lines, chennels from a T-1, whatever, we still > had to have phone lines. > > Now I'm confused. > > If I implement an Asterisk based system (yes, I'd be paying a consultant > to help), will I still have to maintain phone lines and pay full price > for Long Distance? > > Simple pointers to White Papers on this issue will be sufficient. > > Many thanks, > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
