> My concern was if I'd have to teach folks how to dial, but I guess > that I can still have the option to assign a number that will give > immediate access to the PSTN,
In Germany, you usually use a 0 in hardware PXSes to get the PSTN dial tone. No problem with Asterisk to do the same. > so no need to make a special dialplan to > acomodate the weird numbering system we have in Brazil (sometimes we > dial 7 numbers, sometimes 8, sometimes 12, sometimes 13, etc.) Actually, we also have non-fixed phone numbers in Germany. I think this is not weird, I think this is very good. And again, Asterisk supports this. > This is really a great idea. See, my biggest concern is not the voice > quality in terms of audio, but if the conversation is allowed to flow > in the same way as with regular phones. For me this is not a problem. I tested two different PA168 based phones, a Sipura SPA-2000 and two Grandstreams BT101s. Just the PA168 had noticable delay. Botht the Sipura and the Grandstreams had analog-phone-quality. I'm talking here from phoning inside my network, so there were no internet delay etc. The PA168 based ones where slower. The used code has an implication to the delay. Because I use the phones inside my network only, I opted for alaw or ulaw, because they are faster. I don't care for good compression. Make all phones using the same codec, then Asterisk won't need to do any codec-conversion, this saves a millisecond (or so, see "show translations") as well. I also used both chan_capi and chan_zap with zaphfc to phone to and from EuroISDN lines as FXO. Again there was almost no delay and no echo. Never tried analog FXO. So I think this setup would be ok for interrupting Brasilians. :-) PS: search at www.voip-info.org if you don't know what I mean with PA168 -- M&N Solutions GmbH http://www.mn-solutions.de Holger Schurig Dieselstr. 18 61191 Rosbach v.d.H�he Tel: (+49) 6003 9141 0 Fax: (+49) 6003 9141 49 _______________________________________________ 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
