asterisk users - Jan 2004 - Capabilites of Asterisk

From what I can see, the asterik/digum software/hardward allows for
a incomming alalog trunk lines and a lode of internal pbx pots lines.

1)instead of an analog trunk or a t1 trunk, can I connect to a VOIP carrier?
2)can I have a split pbx using VOIP, so that if I have two separate locations
   it looks like one PBX?

Thanks

Chip

Yes you can connect inbound and outbound to a VOIP carrier and 
completely forgo the need for any t1/analog cards. Check out 
www.nuphone.net, and voicepulse. In addition you can trunk together two 
asterisk boxes  on disparate networks and split up the extension 
mapping, this may be somewhat inefficient though depending on how you 
handle it. I think the wiki tackles these questions in a bit more 
depth.

Matt

On Jan 23, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Ralph Blach wrote:
> From what I can see, the asterik/digum software/hardward allows for
> a incomming alalog trunk lines and a lode of internal pbx pots lines.
>
> 1)instead of an analog trunk or a t1 trunk, can I connect to a VOIP 
> carrier?
> 2)can I have a split pbx using VOIP, so that if I have two separate 
> locations
>   it looks like one PBX?
>
> Thanks
>
> Chip
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