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

Wed Dec 20 16:11:20 JST 2006

We also have Asterisk up and running on OS X, on an intel Mini I  
bought for my company a couple of months ago. Before that I ran  
Asterisk on a 5 year old G4. I have around 35 telephones, mostly on  
pap2-adapters (Linksys), and 5 Grandstream GXP-2000 phones. I found a  
company that I connect to with IAX that I use for outgoing/incoming  
calls to the analog telephone network, and very cheap too (I am in  
Norway).

The timer issue has been fixed in OpenPBX.org, and I will use that  
instead of Asterisk when they have a final release ready. There are  
still some small issues with it that I will wait until I switch.

I have also developed a Cocoa application that I use to connect to  
Asterisk and OpenPBX.org. Here is an URL to some screenshots: http:// 
www.myrvold.org/astconsole/astconsole.html

Ivan

Den 20. des. 2006 kl. 05.48 skrev Mark Engelhardt via List:

> 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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