Thank you Steve. It is clear that I've only hit the tip of a massive iceberg with this stuff. Its all very cool, I've got the time so I might as well make good use of it when I am not out on interviews and such. It is all such an interesting topic.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Steve Edwards <asterisk....@sedwards.com> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, UIT DEVELOPMENT wrote: > >> Are you saying that if I got a number that was in my parents area code >> then they could be making a "local" call to my Asterisk, which is >> physically a 1000+ miles from them? Now that is cool. > > See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/DID+Service+Providers > > Setting up IAX has fewer potholes than SIP. If your Asterisk server > "registers" with the provider you can skip all of the firewall and routing > issues as well. > > You can have any number of PSTN numbers ring your Asterisk server. You can > assign (in your dial plan) custom ring tones to each so you know if it is > your "friends & family" number, your wife's business number, your "I'm > looking for a job" number, etc. > > A lot of the "free" DIDs are in the middle of nowhere because of the funny > FCC tariffs that say that the long distance carrier has to pay the rural > telephone company "above market" rates for the call. That's how some of > the cheesy, late-night cable TV chat services work. > > You can get DIDs in other countries as well. I have 5 in England so that > when my wife is "home" she can call me or each of our kids with a "local" > call. > > The numbers are registered to my Asterisk server in San Diego. When a call > comes in, it dials (using Vitelity) the "real" cell numbers. > > -- > Thanks in advance, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Steve Edwards sedwa...@sedwards.com Voice: +1-760-468-3867 PST > Newline Fax: +1-760-731-3000 > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users