On 25 Aug 2004, at 12:23, Benjamin Johnson wrote:
Hi all,
I've been playing about with Asterisk for years now on and off, just SIP to SIP calls, using FWD and suchlike. I'm moving house at the beginning of September and have decided to build an Asterisk based system for my home office.
I'm in the UK and wonder if anyone can give me advice on lines and hardware to use. Had planned to go with an ISDN2e line coupled with a BT Speedway ISDN card [1] from eBay for the PSTN side and Cisco 2940 and 2960G devices talking SIP for the internal phones.
In addition to this I want to have extra numbers provided to me (MSN??) by BT and then set up Asterisk to handle calls differently depending on what number is called (i.e. work, home, fax).
I don't have a problem setting this up under Asterisk (that's the fun part) but what I need is advice on what to ask for from BT so I don't get the wrong lines / services and so that it all works smoothly!
You NEED a BT ISDN2e connection - the Highway stuff is a waste of space, and prolly won't work with voice. Call them up (You'll need to be a business, they don't seem to sell anything other than Highway to home users) and ask for an ISDN2e circuit, and tell them you want a bunch of MSN's (Multiple Subscriber Numbers, I think) and they should be able to sort it out. MAKE SURE you deal with Business sales, not Residential Sales. Other than that, it should be fairly painless. I've not used * with MSN's, only DDI's, but for DDI's you need a) lots of money and b) a p2p mode ISDN line, which I believe requires an active (rather than passive, as the speedways are) ISDN card.
We tend to use active cards here at work, but I've used chan_capi with a BT speedway before, and it works just fine. I'm not sure that I have the configs laying about, but if you have any specific questions, feel free to fire them at me :)
Jon
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