[Mac-telephony-list] newbie

[Benjamin Kowarsch via List]

On Dec 25, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Francis Augusto Medeiros via List wrote:

> I have a mac mini at home, and I thought it would be cool if I could
> get a cheap interface (FXO ?) to hook my phone line into my router
> (Linksys WRT54G) and use a mac-friendly implementation of Asterisk or
> openpbx to handle this - or, as I have a DSL, maybe I should rely on
> a solution like pbxes.com?

If you want your POTS line to be available from a SIP phone, you will  
need some sort of FXO interface. You could use a Sipura SPA-3000 for  
that, it has both an FXO and an FXS port.

PSTN ---analog-line---> [SPA-3000] ---SIP---> [IP-PBX] ---> [phone]

or even without a PBX ...

PSTN ---analog-line---> [SPA-3000] ---SIP---> [SIP-phone]

The benefit of a PBX in between is the ability to serve multiple  
"lines" to multiple phones/destinations and to use other services  
that the PBX provides, e.g. voicemail, conferencing, auto-attendant etc.

If you want to set up something right now on your Mac, you may want  
to use the Sunrise installer. If it isn't all that urgent and you can  
wait a little, there will soon be a new installer based on  
OpenPBX.org, which has better support for OSX than Asterisk.

hope this helps

rgds
benjk