[Mac-telephony-list] Does anyone have any experience conecting asterisk/openPBX to a PRI ?

[Ken Rice via List]

Hey guys

OpenPBX/Asterisk both work on OSX (Plain Tiger is fine)

The main problems are related around timing and a few other things that ends
up leaving a few things to be desired in Conference Bridges on system and
MusicOnHold.

As far as connecting to the PSTN your real options are a) Use a VoIP based
Service provider, or b) use a PSTN -> SIP gateway like a Cisco 2600 or Cisco
IAD2400 series box.  These boxes allow you to connect T1s or POTS lines to
your system Via SIP.

Not too many people deploy asterisk/OpenPBX on OSX but it has been done.
(personally I do my asterisk development on my G4 PowerBook and have for
quite a while)

Once you have the core system set up, there are a stack of phones you can
use as long as they are SIP Compliant, Polycom SoundPoint IP series, Cisco
SIP phones, Linksys ATAs and SPA series phones, EyeBeam/X-Lite and several
others.




On 12/19/06 9:39 PM, "brody bernardi via List"
<mac-telephony-list at mactelephony.net> wrote:

> Mark,
> 
> I am in a similar situation, our company's aging Comdial DSU 8 line
> 16 station phone system is due for replacement.  I have been
> monitoring this mailing list to watch asterisk (now openpbx)
> development for some time now.  I have been waiting to hear of some
> real world installs, and the methods used.
> 
> We are a Mac only manufacturing company and would likely follow a
> similar solution (run on a mac).  I would be very interested to
> follow your deployment and learn all I can of its successes and
> failures.
> I already have some questions...:
> How are you connecting the land lines to OpenPBX?  (is that the
> Cisco 2600? I will google it as sonn as I finish this email) 
> Do you need OS X Server or will plain Tiger work fine?
> Are you going to consider the new Linksys(cisco) voip iPhone?
> Will you use any soft phones?
> 
> I have a million more questions, but I hope simply reading of your
> posts here will answer a lot of them.
> I'm sure you can't possibly post daily updates or anything, but even
> to hear the final results would be great.
> 
> Anyway, Good luck on this project, and thanks.
> 
> Brody
> 
> p.s. I love your shop (smalldog) and have been an occasional customer.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:13 PM, Mark Engelhardt via List wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We are considering deploying the following setup:
>> 
>> G5 Xserver running openPBX RC2
>> 25 Cisco 7960 IP phones
>> 10 Cisco 7912 IP Phones
>> 1  Cisco 2600 router with a High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV)
>> installed connected to a Telco PRI.
>> 
>> The above system would replace 13 copper pair analog lines connected
>> to an Avaya Magix system.
>> 
>> Questions:
>>   1) Does anyone have experience with this kind of setup?
>>   2) Is the cisco High Density Voice Module (NM-HDV) recommended for
>> this?
>>   3) What other PRI gateway do you recommend?
>>   4) Are you available for hire to help configure this setup in mid-
>> january?
>>      You can reply to the above question off list:  marke at
>> smalldog.com
>>   5) Should I scrap the mac idea and run asterisk with a Digium
>> Wildcard TE110P on a PC linux box.?
>> 
>> Mark Engelhardt
>> 
>> 
>>   .
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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