asterisk users - Oct 2010 - integrate Intertel Axxess with Asterisk

Has anyone successfully integrated Asterisk with an Inter-tel Axxess phone
system via a SIP trunk using the IPRC card?

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Marvin Horst
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:00 PM, marvin horst <fivehorsts at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone successfully integrated?Asterisk?with an?Inter-tel?Axxess phone
> system?via a SIP trunk using the IPRC card?
I have, believe it or not, integrated Asterisk with Inter-Tel.

However, not via SIP. Run the costs.

When I did, it was way cheaper to integrate asterisk with Inter-Tel
via PRI card than via SIP, especially when you figured price per
channel. I had a bunch of PRI cards on Inter-Tel talking to asterisk.
That was revision one.

Revision two, as we got bigger, I went to Cisco gear, like the 3845,
and plugged the PRIs from Inter-Tel into the Cisco gear, and used the
Cisco gear for the SIP conversion. This let asterisk talk straight SIP
and not worry about talking directly to the Inter-Tel.

We grew the Inter-Tel to as big as we could get it, offloaded as much
as we could, and eventually we couldn't fit our call center into it
anymore. Now we're Cisco for the call center.

I don't know whether what I used was called Inter-Tel Axxess. I always
just called it Inter-Tel.

How did the setup work as far as extensions on the Inter-Tel system
contacting extensions on the asterisk system?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Justin Sherrill <
Justin.Sherrill at americanrocksalt.com> wrote:
>  We have it integrated, but differently; we have 2 T1 voice lines, and a
> 4-port Sangoma card.  The T1 lines run into the Asterisk system, and then
> the other two ports run into the Inter-Tel.  If the Asterisk system has
> directives that match a call, it does something with it.  Otherwise, it
> passes it back out to the Inter-Tel.  This has worked surprisingly well,
and
> makes it easy to transition away from the Inter-Tel equipment at our own
> speed.
>
>
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> asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *marvin horst
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:00 PM
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> *Subject:* [asterisk-users] integrate Intertel Axxess with Asterisk
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> Has anyone successfully integrated Asterisk with an Inter-tel Axxess phone
> system via a SIP trunk using the IPRC card?
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> --
> Marvin Horst
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:23 AM, marvin horst <fivehorsts at gmail.com>
wrote:
> How did the setup work as far as extensions on the Inter-Tel system
> contacting extensions on the asterisk system?
It worked, I dare say, flawlessly. Well, as flawlessly as Inter-Tel
worked. Still had to watch out for line error counters, and still had
to reboot it daily (Windows + Inter-Tel equals unstable).

When sending calls into Inter-Tel, the other side, probably asterisk,
masquerades as telco sending in call as PRI.

In the other direction, you configure the lines as OPX, or off-premise
extensions. Just make the extensions match for each line on the PRI
and set your dialplan so you keep things making sense.