asterisk users - Sep 2003 - Getting a local number abroad - Newbie question

Hello!

I have a staff member abroad and need to provide him with the ability to 
make local calls.  The features I need are:

* Possibillity to make calls at local (Icelandic) charges from Ireland 
office.
* Possibillity to call the local Icelandic number and reach the Ireland 
office.

I'm also wondering if there is any isdn based solution since there is a 
possibillity of another staff member going abroad, and then I would like 
to have 2 numbers, 1 for each user.

Is the phone on the user end software-based, ip-telephone or an analog 
telephone?



Best regards,

Maron Krist?fersson
Reykjav?k
Iceland

On Tuesday 09 September 2003 07:17, Maron Krist?fersson
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a staff member abroad and need to provide him with the ability
> to make local calls.  The features I need are:
>
> * Possibillity to make calls at local (Icelandic) charges from
> Ireland office.
Sure.  Just send the IAX call into a context which has the permission
to access outside FXO channels on the other side.  You could use
DISA on the remote system, to give "local dialtone" or you could
simply
pass a dialled extension through into a Dial command.
> * Possibillity to call the local Icelandic number and reach the
> Ireland office.
Yep, same as above, except ring an inside channel, instead of going to
an outside channel.

For example:
; Local outside line
exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/${EXTEN:1})
; Remote line
exten => _8.,1,Dial(IAX/myuser@remotehost/${EXTEN:1})

; On the other system
exten => _9.,1,Dial(Zap/${EXTEN:1})
exten => 101,1,Dial(Zap/9)

So you'd dial 92345 to dial 2345 locally, 892345 to dial 2345 on the
remote system, and dial 8101 to dial the remote channel 9 (possibly a
remote office extension).
> I'm also wondering if there is any isdn based solution since there is
> a possibillity of another staff member going abroad, and then I would
> like to have 2 numbers, 1 for each user.
See here:  http://ns1.jnetdns.de/jn/relaunch/asterisk/
> Is the phone on the user end software-based, ip-telephone or an
> analog telephone?
Could be any or all of the above.

-Tilghman