Oliver Brandt
2003-Aug-17 13:05 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Recomendations for an ISDN-PBX to use with asterisk
Hi, I'm planning to buy a new ISDN-PBX (I hope this is the right term for an ISDN phone system). I would also like to connect it to asterisk. As far as I know there is no ISDN card where I can connect an ISDN-Phone to directly working together with asterisk (please correct me if I'm wrong). So what I was thinking of doing was to get a regular ISDN PBX and add a second internal S0 bus which I'd connect to asterisk using chan_capi. Now to place a call through asterisk I'd first have to dial into asteriks and then have asterisk give me a dialtone and recognice dtmf. Is there any way to just prefix the phonnumber with lets say a 9 and then have the PBX transmit the rest of the number to asteriks so that I would not have to go through two dialtones? Any suggestions on what PBX to use if this is possible? It's supposed to be for a private home so I should not be some really expensive professional one... Thank you very much! Regards Oliver
WipeOut .
2003-Aug-17 13:15 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Recomendations for an ISDN-PBX to use with asterisk
Why not get IP phones and use Asterisk as the PBX from the start?? Will probably save you a LOT of money and many headaches...> Hi, > > I'm planning to buy a new ISDN-PBX (I hope this is the right term for an > ISDN phone system). I would also like to connect it to asterisk. As far > as I know there is no ISDN card where I can connect an ISDN-Phone to > directly working together with asterisk (please correct me if I'm > wrong). So what I was thinking of doing was to get a regular ISDN > PBX and add a second internal S0 bus which I'd connect to asterisk using > chan_capi. Now to place a call through asterisk I'd first have to dial > into asteriks and then have asterisk give me a dialtone and recognice > dtmf. Is there any way to just prefix the phonnumber with lets say a 9 > and then have the PBX transmit the rest of the number to asteriks so > that I would not have to go through two dialtones? Any suggestions on > what PBX to use if this is possible? It's supposed to be for a private > home so I should not be some really expensive professional one... > > Thank you very much! > Regards > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze
Jamie Neil
2003-Aug-17 17:20 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Recomendations for an ISDN-PBX to use with asterisk
Quoting Oliver Brandt:> Hi, > > I'm planning to buy a new ISDN-PBX (I hope this is the right term for an > ISDN phone system). I would also like to connect it to asterisk. As far > as I know there is no ISDN card where I can connect an ISDN-Phone to > directly working together with asterisk (please correct me if I'm > wrong). So what I was thinking of doing was to get a regular ISDN > PBX and add a second internal S0 bus which I'd connect to asterisk using > chan_capi. Now to place a call through asterisk I'd first have to dial > into asteriks and then have asterisk give me a dialtone and recognice > dtmf. Is there any way to just prefix the phonnumber with lets say a 9 > and then have the PBX transmit the rest of the number to asteriks so > that I would not have to go through two dialtones? Any suggestions on > what PBX to use if this is possible? It's supposed to be for a private > home so I should not be some really expensive professional one...I though this sounded like a good idea too, so I looked around for a small PBX in the UK. First problem was that they are like rocking horse manure here, and the few that you can get are quite expensive. Undeterred I decided to look abroad, and picked one up for about EUR120 or so while on a visit to Munich. It is called a TELNET WILLI (made by Telebau I think) and has 6 analogue extensions plus an internal S0 bus (required for connection to *) - seemed perfect (also kapejod mentioned that he had used one of these). Unfortunately, the PBX is designed purely for the German market and so there is NO English documentation at all. As my German is VERY basic, I've had a really tough time getting it configured (hours of cutting and pasting into babelfish - German technical terms do not translate well :( ). After extensive hair tearing I did manage to get the PBX to work and I've even managed to make and recieve calls through * with it, but there are still niggles that stop me using it properly. I think the impedence might be wrong for UK handsets (something about the sound isn't right). The double dialtone thing is annoying (it does have a "Baby Call" function that could be used to get around this, but I've run out of enthusiasm for it at the moment). The dialtone and ring are unfamiliar and are not user configurable. The power supply is brick style with a 2 pin euro plug which makes adapting it for UK use difficult. After all the effort, I've decided to shelve it at for the moment and try some 7940's from Ebay (around ?90 + ?20 for a PSU) or the new FXS card from Digium instead. Jamie