asterisk users - Feb 2007 - Cisco Router for supply a connection from PABX to Asterisk

> anyone know if they have a solution in Cisco for:
>
>     1- Connect old PABX (with BRI or PRI) to a cisco router
>     2- Connect this cisco router in SIP to a Asterisk Server
>
> I am search if cisco can this and what is the modele for this
I am using a Cisco to connect Asterisk via PRI to our Nortel TX-1. The Cisco is
a "voice bundle" of 2,811 + E1 + PDLM card. Note that you need PDLMs
as the
same number as the PRI channels you are going to define (i.e. 32 PDLMs for each
PRI).

I am controlling the Cisco via SIP; it works, but a few problems:

- Only basic connectivity. No additional features (like names) as the Cisco
  supports them only via MGCP (in MGCP is passes all the Q.sig signals to the
  PBX - Asterisk in this case - and it should do all the handling, but
  I did not find how to do it with Asterisk).

- Cisco has no authentication mechanism, so anyone which has access to port
  5060 of it can generate calls. Asterisk is not better when it concerned in
  such sutiations...

                                 Regards, __Yehavi:

some howto configuration for asterisk controlling ci$co router (pri/qsig 
ports especially) using mgcp interests me too... ;-)




Yehavi Bourvine +972-8-9489444 wrote
>> I am using a Cisco to connect Asterisk via PRI to our Nortel TX-1. The
Cisco is
>> a "voice bundle" of 2,811 + E1 + PDLM card. Note that you
need PDLMs as the
>> same number as the PRI channels you are going to define (i.e. 32 PDLMs
for each
>> PRI).
>>
>> I am controlling the Cisco via SIP; it works, but a few problems:
>>
>> - Only basic connectivity. No additional features (like names) as the
Cisco
>>   supports them only via MGCP (in MGCP is passes all the Q.sig signals
to the
>>   PBX - Asterisk in this case - and it should do all the handling, but
>>   I did not find how to do it with Asterisk).
>>
>>
>>