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

Wed Dec 20 13:48:49 JST 2006

On Dec 19, 2006, at 8:33 PM, brody bernardi via List wrote:

> 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.

The SPA 3000 and SPA 3102 do that pretty well.

Mark

>
>
> 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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