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Hello Everyone, We are looking to interconnect with a local ILEC over an OC-n transport layer. They basically gave us two options in terms of mapping the SONET to the DS3: * VT1.5s mapping * DS1s mapping The second option is quite clear. We would MUX the connection, and plug the lines into qaud t1 cads etc... The tech mentioned that with the second option we would also need a DACS to convert

Sorry for the off-topic, but perhaps this will be of interest to other asterisk based ITSPs. We are starting service in a rural area where the ILEC has the rural "monopoly". From what we have read in the FCC docs this does NOT exempt them from number portability, but what does it take for us to qualify to receive their numbers? To date we simply have a few voice trunks to them,

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1812887,00.asp Specifically, his assertion that ISP's would sniff traffic and block, say, the SIP port. You could play wack-a-mole with port numbers, no? Also a community based, Freenet style of encryption implementation for "free" VoIP traffic would address this issue. I raise this to the list because I'm sure there's a grain of

I'm presently working on an office move and evaluation of telecommunications services needed at the new location. I'm presently wrastling with an issue related to portability and geography between landline carriers. Presently certain people within the organization are hopelessly in love with our 909-822-xxxx number(provided by pacbell/att). As that number is presently provisioned it

I was playing around with conferencing tonight. I was able to place a bunch of SIP phones and a couple of my Zap FXS phones into a conference. So I thought, "Let's see what it's like when people come in from outside." So I called a friend and had him call in on one of my Zap channels, WHICH IS CONNECTED TO MY POTS LINE THAT DOESN'T DO DISCONNECT SUPERVISION. When he

I was looking at the ILECs' web sites to determine how their users access voicemail. I looked at AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, and Embarq. They supported one or a combination of the following for calling from your phone: *98 #55 Toll free number Your number A varying phone number, based on your number's loca...

Hey all here's an update. I do care to thank everyone for your information on BRI interfaces that operate in USA/NA. I know the responses are were limited, but the selection of hardware is also limited. (Shame because BRI would fit my needs perfectly). To continue, it's now been over 4 weeks since I last talked to the ILEC sales rep about pricing and plans. Unfortunately there

Hello Everyone, I am looking to getting converged with the local ILEC here in Canada (Bell or Telus), and was wondering if I can get some more information about typical setups. DIDs and channel offerings from third party clecs does not fit our business model and that's why we are looking to purchasing phone numbers directly from the ILEC, and manging our own PRIs for a convergence of sorts.

I am looking for a provider that will provide an equivalent of DID/DOD trunks via IAX, IAX2 or SIP using numbers in Metro Chicago (prefer Skokie), LA (prefer West Hollywood or Venice), and/or Orlando (prefer Winter Garden). If I can migrate some of my existing numbers using LNP, that would be even better, but it is not a requirement. While I know that there are several companies that will

Hi, We've got a dedicated T1 with two trunks running into our ILECs selective router for 911. Split out of the T1 into two MF CAMA trunks on ILEC side. I'm trying to use asterisks e911 signaling, but I'm having trouble with the dial command. (== Everyone is busy/congested at this time (1:1/0/0)) I'm missing something and I'm thinking it has...

Hey all, It such a shame that BRI technology is such a flop in the USA. For a small office such as mine it would be a great product. So her goes my question.... What is a known asterisk working BRI card that will operate in the USA. I need to weigh price/quality. I need to do DID/DDI (or what ever you want to call it). Asterisk will do everything else I need. The ILEC has at the other

Hi folks. My client is wanting to use call forwarding configured on their phones (Linksys SPA942), with a PRI from their provider. When we configure call forwarding, we invariably get a "The number you have dialed is not in service" message from the providers. Examining the detailed dial plan debugging as well as the PRI debugging, the number is dialed correctly. The only difference

Does anyone know what would be involved in making Asterisk work as a voicemail system in a Centrex environment? We have a Centrigram voicemail system that belongs in the Smithsonian. There are analog lines coming into the box and a 56KB data feed from the phone company's switch. Peter

Hello, After reading the lists and taking reccomendations from TC, I have finally given up on the echo can built into asterisk. I am sick of hearing complaints from users, so the money spent on a hardware echo can will be worth its weight in gold. I am curious however, about some setup and component requirements. It seems as if every telecom place I call, either never calls back or doesn't

I called bandwidth.com to buy a sip line from them for $30 a month. But they said they will not sell me a sip line since the address on the account is Citrus Heights CA and they can not provide services in that area. On asking further the person clarified that there is no e911 service available in the 916 area code for bandwidth.com But other providers like www.broadvoice.com are able to provide

Has anyone had any experience using asterisk for a 911 call center? Does anyone know of any reason why it would not be suitable? As far as I know all 911 call routing takes place at the CO switch so a regular T1 line should work fine. I understand that there is support for ACD in asterisk and that is should be possible to implement screen pop (CTI). Any comments? Gene Kochanowsky Solution

Does anyone know of a device that will take an SS7 link and convert it to a PRI? -- respectfully, Joseph - (606) 477-2355 x140 ------=============

My boss is insisting we support fax, and I keep telling him that Fax over IP is very unreliable and not recommended and his immediate come-back is "Vonage does it." and it's very hard to figure out how. I don't think Vonage does T.38, the Linksys/Sipura units they're using doesn't support T.38 to my knowledge. That means they have to be using G.711Ulaw to send faxes.

I have a couple of questions I'm hoping folks can help me out with. When I search the mailing list, I see folks doing what I'm interested in so here's hoping ! - How are people making out with interfacing to the 7960? I'm considering buying a number of these as they look quite feature rich. But, are they easy to interface to? - Will I be able to interface with softkeys on

I'm brand new to asterisk but not to T1s so here's my bit to contribute. Each local telco {be they ILEC or CLEC} is different depending on their CO switch and the software options they've purchased for it. In Alaska, the "break-even" for switching from POTS to T1 is about 13 trunks. Your telco will offer "regular T1" and/or ISDN-PRI. Up here the tariffed rate