Clint Willard
2006-Apr-26 10:00 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Explain to me VoIP termination service.
I'm confused about VoIP termination service. Would this mean that I could have an Asterisk server in my basement and receive/call PSTN phones via a VoIP termination provider? The "call" out from my box would go over the Internet to a termination provider which would in turn convert it to analog over the PSTN to someone's plain old phone? And vise-versa, a plain old phone caller would dial a number where the call goes out over PSTN to my termination provider who would convert it to data to send over the Internet to my Asterisk box? And would this would work to call out to PSTN to two lines and connect these two lines together? Thanks -Clint -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060426/943aed26/attachment.htm
Hi, A TERMINATION provider will do just that.... take your calls over VoIP, and TERMINATE them to the PSTN. An ORIGINATOR will provide only INBOUND service to you. (ie someone dials a number and you get the call) TERMINATION: YOU-->PSTN ORIGINATION: PSTN ->YOU Some companies only do one.. some do both. We do both termination and origination, as does calleveryone.com and I think asterlink does as well. On 4/26/06, Clint Willard <clint317@gmail.com> wrote:> > I'm confused about VoIP termination service. Would this mean that I could > have an Asterisk server in my basement and receive/call PSTN phones via a > VoIP termination provider? The "call" out from my box would go over the > Internet to a termination provider which would in turn convert it to analog > over the PSTN to someone's plain old phone? And vise-versa, a plain old > phone caller would dial a number where the call goes out over PSTN to my > termination provider who would convert it to data to send over the Internet > to my Asterisk box? > > And would this would work to call out to PSTN to two lines and connect these > two lines together? > > Thanks > > -Clint > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >