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 lines. Then the line fees balance out.
I was hoping for a solution more along the lines of.... Use this "x" variable that contains what ZAP channel it came in on, then I can program that one to point to a particular person. Thanks, Rob Sean M. Pappalardo wrote: > > > 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 there a way >> to determine what number was dialed and have it forward to a specific >> phone? > > 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 are usually inbound-only, but some CO's can add outbound > service too if needed. Call your phone service provider's business > office and ask about analog DID lines/trunks. They should be around > $30/mo for the line and $1-2/mo for each number. Ask them what type of > signaling they use then you'll need to configure your zapata.conf to > match. After that, you can then start routing in the dialplan based on > the number called. For extra fun, have the CO set them up in a hunt > group to avoid busy signals. > > Take a look at: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+tips+DID > > (BTW, Why are you adding analog lines if you're already big enough for > a PRI? Isn't it less expensive to just add a couple more DID numbers > to the PRI?) > > Sean > > <<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->> > > This E-Mail message has been scanned for viruses > and cleared by >>SmartMail<< from Smarter Technology, Inc. > <<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------->> > > _______________________________________________ > --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
