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

[brody bernardi via List]

is there any effort to make an interface to go from copper to  
computer?  I recall the usb modem being a possible solution.
I certainly wasn't expecting a "poof, its done" out of the box solution.


On Dec 19, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ken Rice via List wrote:

> 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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