On Monday 21 Mar 2011, gurteshwar singh wrote: > Basically what is illegal to do in terms of VoIP is to say have a > PSTN/ISDN line plugged into your voip server and then lease that out > to somebody over IP. In effect selling it as a DID number over IP. > Most other cases are perfectly legal. There's tons of EPABX systems > being sold from vendors like Simens, NEC, etc for years. You plug in > an outside line, which could be PSTN or ISDN and distribute calls to > your extensions (either through IP or TDM). For IP, these systems > (Siemens for eg) come with some sort of a LAN card, which lets you > plugin that massive EPABX box on to your LAN switch and route all > incoming traffic to your softswitch (Asterisk for eg) and then > distribute calls to extensions which maybe IP phones or softphones.
In other words, you need an "air gap" (the words from the document that defined this restriction) between your network and the rest of the world. As you say, connecting your own network to your PSTN is perfectly legal. Of course, the law itself exists purely to protect the erstwhile VSNL and similar organisations from "unfair" competition from the Internet. Unfair to whom, I wonder? VoIP is certainly fair to the population of India, who are currently needlessly being denied access to new paradigms of communication purely to protect some vested interests. OK, enough ranting, back to Asterisk hacking ;-) Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
