On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 10:52, Jeremy Jones wrote: > Hi folks, > > The obligatory newbie disclaimer: > > "Hi, I'm new to Asterisk and I have a couple questions..." > > OK, now that that's over with: > > I've just started working for a small CLEC, and I'm trying to sell * to > my boss as a replacement for some expensive/inflexible/closed-source > software he's been using to provide residential dialtone with for a > couple years now. Presently, we have: > > 1) a cluster of sun boxes running propriatary IP-PBX software > 2) a cisco 3640 h323 gatekeeper > 3) a cisco as5300 pstn gateway > > I'd like to use sip between an asterisk box and that as5300 (which right > now is only speaking h323), and I'd like to be able to use sip, h323, > mgcp, or skinny for residential customers. This ought to be no problem, > right? I'm coming up with pretty much nil on documentation regarding > as5300 <-> asterisk configuration, however. And, while I'm sure I could > fumble through it for a couple days, I thought there just might be > someone out there who has a working configuration using an as5300 as a > pstn gateway with asterisk (either with sip, or with h323 via a cisco > gatekeeper).
I may be wrong, but I think skinny requires you be local to the phone. At least I wouldn't expect my 12sp+ to be very usable if it had to cross a few routers. > Now, regarding residential services in particular... > > The configuration files & examples I've found all assume a business > environment, where you'd dial a 9 for outside lines. Anyone have an > example config where an endpoint gets dumped directly to the pstn when > they pick up the phone? The use of a 9 is to differentiate from a local extension. If you don't need local extensions, then don't worry about that. Develop your dialplan to accept all numbers and just do a account validation then dial. -- Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
