[Asterisk-Users] A little bit of success
Someone a little while back asked for comments on people who have had any success with Asterisk. Well, I am here to report that there is some good news. My most heavily used Asterisk system has now been continuously operational for 21 days. Knock on wood. The system on average day passes between 8,000 and 10,000 calls. A little simple math is putting me closer the quarter million call milestone and well on the way to 1 million calls processed. Two more heavily used systems are now planned for the future. Crossing this milestone give me a little more ability to sleep at night. In seeing it I want to thank and congratulate all the people contributing a tremendous amount of work to extend and improve Asterisk. Cheers! -Nicholas Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] QoS On *
Asterisk changes the TCP header to include a request for Terms Of Service (TOS). As long as all the routers along the understand and respect the request to prioritize the traffic it should work out ok. On a private network this is usually the case. On the internet, especially with some of the cheap and small firewalls and NATs this maybe or may not be the case. Some of the newer ones have TOS and QOS (Ethernet) as an option. -Nicholas - Original Message - From: Mireia Munoz de jesus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:10 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] QoS On * Hi! I have been looking for a while for informatoin about how QoS is assured in Asterisk, but I haven't found a thing. Can someone give me some tips about that? Thanks, Best regards, Mireia ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] I give up!!
What you say is absolutely true. We must not forget that asterisk is a work in progress changing constantly. All the rules of development and deployment apply. I don't think that the industry even applies. I am in Telecomm. Just like the aerospace industry, lives depend on things working in the real world. Try deploying in a call center that takes medical emergency callers. I am dealing with this little stress additive as we speak. Sure, you can deploy an alpha or beta system into an environment but you had better be sure to set the expectations of everyone in advance. You should also have clear procedures laid out when things go awry. People are extremely forgiving when they realize what that they have all the facts and are able to make the decisions in an intelligent way. Some people even think this is fun. grin Have fun! -Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Chris Albertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] I give up!! You went about this all backwards. In any mission critical system FIRST you design, build and test the system extensively THEN and only then. do you deploy it. OK, maybe it's just because I'm in the aerospace bussinees I'm used to a high level of quality assurance and testing What you find in CVS is NOT a product. You need to build a working product, debug it, build a support system for it (decent user manuals and training material) test the heck out of your configuration. Design a failure recovery plan (what happens if a power suply smokes?) and only then go knocking on people's doors. The idea is that you drop off a turn key system and not do development in the costomer's office. I've paid to have a phone system installed and we wrote up the deal that after it worked we'd pay for it and any problems in the first 90 days were to be fixed at no cost to us. Most people expect phone to just work. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Setting Outbound Caller ID for T1 link
Can someone Check something out for me here. I have a PBX behind an
asterisk system connnected via T1. The PBX is not seeing the caller ID or
ANI coming across from asterisk. I am setting it explicitly using :
extensions.conf fragment
[macro-dialswitch3]
; ARG1 Called Number, Arg2 Caller ID NUM, Arg3 Caller ID
exten = s,1,SetCallerID(${ARG3},a)
exten = s,2,SetAccount(AP${ARG1})
exten = s,3,Macro(startmonitor,${ARG1},${ARG2},${CHANNEL},ib)
exten = s,4,NoOp(${CALLERID})
exten = s,5,Dial(Zap/g4/${ARG1})
exten = s,6,Congestion
exten = s,106,Busy
I
The asterisk box should be acting as the PSTN to the internal switch here.
Am I missing something.
zapta.conf fragment
;This is the t1 to switch3 used for outbound calls
signalling = em_w
group=4
context=outbound
callerid=asreceived
channel = 73-96
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[Asterisk-Users] ISDN PRI CallerID NAME question
Is Caller ID Name actually ever set by asterisk. I am looking at the PRI debug messages and do not see it going out. I doo see the number being sent out. Excuse me if I am a little off here but am I supposed to be able to set the Text on a PRI Span? -Nicholas Romero ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Small problem with FAX and Modem.
Is there a good way to detect FAX and Modem on a call that is established and then take some sort of action? What I have is a situation that all calls going out through an asterisk system are being recorded. Some of those calls are internal fax machines or modems. When monitoring is turned on is causes some funky transmission errors with the modems and sometimes Faxes to the point where about 50% of the time the devices just give up. What I would like to do is if the systems detects a modem or a fax jump to another point in the sequence that disables the monitoring. On inbound calls this is more obvious but on outbound calls I am not sure of how to accomplish it. Sort of an aside to this is that after I started recording all the calls I have also seemed to introduce some echo somewhere. The echo was not present before monitoring but not sure why it would introduce it either. Any help appreciated. -Nicholas ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small problem with FAX and Modem.
That would be a little more ideal but the way in which the faxes pass though the system the both the port/channel and the destination are dynamic. There are some special situations that I have some modems that are dialed enough that they are specified. These specific destinations go to another context or rather Special case Macro for their dialing. That special case Macro does not initiate a monitor on the channel. By the way, There are separate contexts for outbound and inbound calls. As a matter of fact there are separate contexts per LEC also so I can load balance traffic. All Extensions in and out are over PRI channels. PRI Spans are front ending switches until development of all applications to Asterisk is complete. It may always have to do this in some situations. Since this is true there is now way to tell what the actual devices are that are dialing behind the first switch. I would normally do this by looking at the CLID or something set by the first switch only it does not allow me to do it on a per port basis. I know that I will probably have to add some FXS ports or ATA's to Asterisk and move all the fax/modem devices over to there but that will take a while. So back to the drawing board. Maybe this will just have to be added to Monitor having it exit it hears fax or modem tones. Still can not think of why it would interfere at all though. -Nicholas - Original Message - From: Martin Pycko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Small problem with FAX and Modem. What if you separate the fax machine channels to diffrent contexts that don't call application Monitor ? It's for outgoing calls and for incoming calls if you have certain extensions for faxes you can call StopMonitor application. regards Martin On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Nicholas Romero wrote: Is there a good way to detect FAX and Modem on a call that is established and then take some sort of action? What I have is a situation that all calls going out through an asterisk system are being recorded. Some of those calls are internal fax machines or modems. When monitoring is turned on is causes some funky transmission errors with the modems and sometimes Faxes to the point where about 50% of the time the devices just give up. What I would like to do is if the systems detects a modem or a fax jump to another point in the sequence that disables the monitoring. On inbound calls this is more obvious but on outbound calls I am not sure of how to accomplish it. Sort of an aside to this is that after I started recording all the calls I have also seemed to introduce some echo somewhere. The echo was not present before monitoring but not sure why it would introduce it either. Any help appreciated. -Nicholas ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
