On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:36 PM, [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I think I understand most of the concepts in play here, but I'm hoping
> someone can recommend some specific devices, designs, ideas, best
> practices etc.
> We are planning on moving from a 2 PRI based Nortel Norstar to Sipx
> 4.0.2. It is VOIP provided directly from Verizon over a Verizon DS3.
>
> 1) We have a handful of old analog devices (fax machines, copiers that
> phone home for billing, postage machines, etc). I would love to get rid
> of all these, but old habits die hard for some people.
>
2) I also have a separate PRI that goes it an Atlas Adtran 550 PRI
> router, that routes calls to a Rightfax fax server via internal PRI
> connection and a Perle systems modem bank over 4 internal ISDN
> connections. I would like to get rid of this PRI all together.
>
i think either keeping a PRI (or a PRI with a minimal number of channels)
and a PRI gateway would be prudent for a lot of things, but that's me.

>
> For the first part, I'm hoping to find the ideal device (ATA, Gateway,
> or whatever I need) to plug 5 to 10 of these analog devices in. I'm
> interested in one that can connect multiple devices that we would put in
> our data center, and one that would connect just a single device if we
> had to locate next to the analog device for some reason. Hopefully
> someone has had some positive experiences with some of these setups.
>
> i don't think sipxbridge will pass the t.38 codec through you need to do
faxing.

> For #2, I think I have a few options. I believe I could put something in
> to route an internal PRI connection to the Atlas 550. I don't want to
> add any hardware cards to my Sipx machine, because I'm hoping to to put
> it on VMware one day if the issues there get worked out. I can make
> Rightfax Sip compatible for about a $3000 upgrade, and I could sell the
> current PRI card in it for about the same. That is what I'm leaning
> towards. Would it be simple to route a range of numbers from Sipx to my
> Rightfax server? I know I could have Verizon send them directly to the
> server, but they have proved to be difficult to work with, so I'm trying
> to keep as much control over this as possible.
>
PRI SIP gateway, can be configured to send certain DID's to another FXS
(fax) directly via sip and bypass sipxecs altogether.

> As for the modem bank, it is only for outbound connections. I was
> ignorantly hoping there would be a simple SIP software modem client that
> would make this a breeze. I now understand why that isn't as simple as I
> was hoping. I only have a few hosts left that need to dial out. Is there
> something that would easily allow them to dial out through Sipx? Would I
> need to use a physical modem and hook up to the device described in part
> 1? My current modem bank ( http://www.perle.com/products/833-RAS.shtml )
> has 4 ISDN ports for outbound connection, so I could use that if it is
> an option to connect that somehow.
>
> If that works, certainly keep it, because modem over sip is not quite there
yet!

> Thanks for all the help everyone here provides!
>
> -Matthew
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