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

[Ken Rice via List]

The real reason IMHO is just lack of a really good "MAC" interface on it.
Its very much a CLI product. Maybe one of these days we'll see that.

Also you cant just plug the copper into your Mac at this time and poof it
works unfortunately... Personally I love to be able to use some Xserves for
1U telephony Servers

On 12/19/06 10:04 PM, "brody bernardi via List"
<mac-telephony-list at mactelephony.net> wrote:

> 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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