-----Original Message----- My office recently purchased an InterTel Axxess system with the IPRC card for VoIP. To our suprise, this card allows the InterTel endpoints and MGCP endpoints to work, but not SIP clients. I was really expecting to get a SIP softphone working with this setup, but that appears to require our vendor to sell us a SIP gateway and licenses at a not yet determined price.
-the sip server comes bundled with an application called Unified Communicator which is pretty cool but also pretty costly. Besides that, the licensing for the SIP endpoints is not so cool. With this background, I have a few questions: Is * a proper tool to provide a SIP<->MGCP gateway? Am I even asking for something that makes sense? If so, where's the best "from the ground up, assume I don't know the lingo" guidance on how to get where I want to go? Like many open source projects, the documentation I've seen so far seems to assume the reader is not a newbie in this field. I'm hoping there's introductory documentation someone can point me towards. Asterisk 101, if you will. -You are asking the wrong question here. Don't think of designing your * solution around the limitations of the Inter-Tel. Besides, if you currently have * up and running (in any capacity) you can make * do what you want it to. Your problem in the end will be making the Axxess work with *. I don't know what version of Axxess you are running but the very recently released version 9.0 supports SIP trunking (I think) via the IPRC card). It will require a couple of licenses but I think it is a better idea then doing MGCP<->SIP stuff. I haven't played with MGCP in * but the Inter-Tel uses an OEM'd AudioCodes box as an FXO gateway and I have had nothing but problems with them. Can't tell if it is gateway related or Axxess related but I ended up putting a PRI into the Axxess and connecting to * via that PRI, then doing all of my IP stuff (via SIP) in *. I have access to an axxess for testing so I will play with it a bit and see if I can figure out a better way. Jason Kawakami www.optellabs.com Salt Lake City, UT _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users