[Sussex] Asterisk

[Jon Fautley]

Iain Stevenson wrote:

>
> I've been using Asterisk in my SOHO setup for longer than I can 
> remember now.  The thing to watch with the X100P analogue card is that 
> it won't handle UK caller ID so if that feature is really important 
> asterisk may not be the best solution or you'll have to compromise.
>
Ah yes, the CLID is a problem :|

You could always get a BT CD50 caller display unit, and hack RS232 
support into it (nice and easy) and then write an AGI app to grab the 
CLID from the CD50.... I have one sitting at home, just haven't got 
around to purchasing the parts to convert it to RS232....

> I have a Grandstream Budgetone (not as nasty as implied, remember the 
> price!), 2 Cisco ATA186 analogue telephone adapters (very reliable, 
> pigs to set up, more echo than on a SIP phone) and  a Cisco 7960G 
> (lots to play with, works very well - OK I 've crashed mine thee times 
> developing applications for it, but it's expensive).
>
They're cheap phones, granted... just DON'T try and use them in anything 
other than a home environment, they're really not up to heavy usage.
I keep meaning to get an ATA186, but I have both FXS and FXO cards in my 
PBX at home, so I can connect both my BT line and my DECT handsets to 
it.. it works well :)

Have you developed any good apps for the C7960? I'd be interested in 
taking a look if they're GPL'd :)

> I've got FWD, IAXtel and VoIPTalk accounts running through asterisk.  
> I'd agree that Telappliant is a good supplier.
>
Yeah, I've got a couple of FWD accounts w/0870 numbers pointing to them 
from calluk, an IAXtel account that I never use, and a VoIP talk account 
that I can't remember when I last used it with about 4 quid of credit on 
it...

I've also got trunking setup between a couple of PBX's meaning I can use 
remote ISDN lines to place calls wherever I am in the world :)

Jon

>  Iain
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> --On Friday, February 27, 2004 12:30 pm +0000 Simon Chappell 
> <s.chappell at isnsuk.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>>
>> Don't know if any of you have had any experience with Asterisk..?
>> (No not the little cartoon character with a fat friend from Gaul)
>>
>> We decided that as all our staff work from home we would get some sip
>> phones. We plugged them in and set them up to connect to FWD and it sort
>> of worked. However we needed something a littel more reliable so I
>> installed my own sip server at the office. took all of 5 mins to 
>> download
>> it and make:make install (Shortly afterwards I found I could have typed
>> emerge asterisk) A few hours of ponsing about with config files and we
>> found a site that had a setup guide for a basic setup. With a bit
>> tweaking 5 minutes later we where phoning each other over IP and down
>> VPNS .... Leaving Ansaphone messages and collecting them via email.. 
>> I am
>> now ordering the PCI card to interface to analogue phone lines..  by the
>> way the config was only 3 text files which I am happy to share if any 
>> one
>> wants a kickstart. and we are using grandstream phones and also a
>> software phone.
>>
>> anyway worth a mention i thought
>>
>> -- 
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Simon Chappell
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