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

[brody bernardi via List]

Is there a reason that "not too many people deploy OpenPBX on OS X"?
It would be sooo easy to yank the Comdial off the wall, plug the  
copper pairs into a Mac, install/configure OpenPBX(azzuro) configure  
for each station, swap out the comdial phones for the ip phones, and  
roll with it.

Granted the OpenPBX install configure would likely need outsourced,  
but that is fine.

Brody



On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Ken Rice via List wrote:

> 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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