asterisk users - Feb 2004 - Newbie Question. Is asterisk right for my scenario?

Hi,

Please excuse me if my question seems too simplistic. I have been reading
the mailing list for some time and I am still a bit confused. Here is the
scenario that I would need to achieve and am wondering if asterisk is the
correct software to use.

            (h323)     (h323/SIP)           (h323)
pstn---cisco------Asterisk??---------cisco---pstn
                            |
                            |
                            | -----sip phone



I have an existing h323 structure doing h323 pstn termination and would like
add sip to part of the structure, also at the same time would like asterik
to act as a softswitch to store dial plans and make routing decisions.
Asterisk at the same time will do h323/SIP translation.

My question, can Asterisk do all these? Or am I totally off?

Any comments are welcome. Many Thanks to all.



Regards,



Anthony

> Hi,
>
> Please excuse me if my question seems too simplistic. I have been reading
> the mailing list for some time and I am still a bit confused. Here is the
> scenario that I would need to achieve and am wondering if asterisk is the
> correct software to use.
>
>             (h323)     (h323/SIP)           (h323)
> pstn---cisco------Asterisk??---------cisco---pstn
>                             |
>                             |
>                             | -----sip phone
>
>
>
> I have an existing h323 structure doing h323 pstn termination and would
> like
> add sip to part of the structure, also at the same time would like asterik
> to act as a softswitch to store dial plans and make routing decisions.
> Asterisk at the same time will do h323/SIP translation.
>
> My question, can Asterisk do all these? Or am I totally off?
Quite simply, yes.  Asterisk is a softswitch more than anything else.  And
it can take an incoming call on any of its available protocols (PSTN, IAX,
SIP, H323, plus many more) and route it back out any of them.