I am a newbee to asterisk. I recently installed asterisk@home. Everything went well and my set up is running fine with soft phones, such as kphone and XtenLite. Now, i want to be able to connect my analogue phones to my asterisk pbx box and use it as if i make a regular Phone call (I do have my PSTN gateway account with broadvoice.com and already configured to route through it). I do NOT have a PSTN phone connection. I want to use my analogue phones as the end points for my asterisk box to make and receive calls. All i want is to use my analogue phones instead of soft phones. Can some one help me what hardware interface i need for that and how should i go about it? if there is any HOW-TO for that it will be of great help. thanks, rajesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050927/a36715e3/attachment.htm
You need an Analog Terminal Adapter (ATA). Sipura makes some good ones. Check out <http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=96_118&products_id=321> <http://www.voipsupply.com/product_info.php?cPath=96_118&products_id=713> That's what I use, and I love 'em. </edg> --On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:10 PM -0500 Rajesh Bhairampally <rajesh_junk@hotmail.com> wrote:> > I am a newbee to asterisk. I recently installed asterisk@home. Everything > went well and my set up is running fine with soft phones, such as kphone > and XtenLite. Now, i want to be able to connect my analogue phones to my > asterisk pbx box and use it as if i make a regular Phone call (I do have > my PSTN gateway account with broadvoice.com and already configured to > route through it). I do NOT have a PSTN phone connection. I want to use > my analogue phones as the end points for my asterisk box to make and > receive calls. All i want is to use my analogue phones instead of soft > phones. > > Can some one help me what hardware interface i need for that and how > should i go about it? if there is any HOW-TO for that it will be of great > help. > > thanks, > rajesh
On Tue, September 27, 2005 19:10, Rajesh Bhairampally said:> I am a newbee to asterisk. I recently installed asterisk@home. Everything > went well and my set up is running fine with soft phones, such as kphone > and XtenLite. Now, i want to be able to connect my analogue phones to my > asterisk pbx box and use it as if i make a regular Phone call (I do have > my PSTN gateway account with broadvoice.com and already configured to > route through it). I do NOT have a PSTN phone connection. I want to use my > analogue phones as the end points for my asterisk box to make and receive > calls. All i want is to use my analogue phones instead of soft phones. > > Can some one help me what hardware interface i need for that and how > should i go about it? if there is any HOW-TO for that it will be of great > help. >It depends on how many phones you have... You can start with a few IAXy's at the low end all the way to channel banks at the high end... The wiki is your friend: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Analog+Telephone+Adapters HTH -- Francesco Peeters ---- GPG Key = AA69 E7C6 1D8A F148 160C D5C4 9943 6E38 D5E3 7704 If your program doesn't recognize my signature, please visit http://www.CAcert.org/index.php?id=3 to retrieve the Root CA certificate.
An interesting read if you still have an analogue phone that does not speak DTMF tones (yet): http://www.geisterstunde.org/drupal/?q=w48_asterisk On Tuesday 27 September 2005 19:10, Rajesh Bhairampally wrote:> I am a newbee to asterisk. I recently installed asterisk@home. Everything > went well and my set up is running fine with soft phones, such as kphone > and XtenLite. Now, i want to be able to connect my analogue phones to my > asterisk pbx box and use it as if i make a regular Phone call (I do have my > PSTN gateway account with broadvoice.com and already configured to route > through it). I do NOT have a PSTN phone connection. I want to use my > analogue phones as the end points for my asterisk box to make and receive > calls. All i want is to use my analogue phones instead of soft phones. > > Can some one help me what hardware interface i need for that and how should > i go about it? if there is any HOW-TO for that it will be of great help. > > thanks, > rajesh