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Thanks Brian, and thanks again for the included definitions <grin> - that helped too. Your comments are really helping clear many questions. I suppose our intensions are to become an IXC. So if my local carrier is sporting old technology, they'll provide TDM services. So if I understood you correctly, the "in-band signaling" is typically SS7, and the alternative is typically

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'm confused a bit about the following and was hoping to get some answers on this group - What is exactly implied when we say asterisk can connect to a PSTN. Does it mean connecting to the PSTN via PRI/T1/E1? If yes, then I assume asterisk does not need to do any SS7 signaling and all it does (playing the role of a PBX) is to connect to a Class 5 Switch at the CO. Is this a correct statement?

Hello everybody, Im new to the list and also new to asterisk, Im wondering if I could set up asterisk as a softswitch, I guess for what I've been reading that It could be possible but almost all the info and documentation Ive found so far is about asterisk as a PBX, etc. Im willing to set a small voip wholesale traffic bussiness and Im not quite sure asterisk is the right chocie for that.

Hi, Inspired by a recent rant about one particular provider, I am getting very curious about something I've never mastered. I'd like someone to explain this here or at least post a link or two that can educate me and probably countless others who have no knowledge in this area. I'm sure there are several of you reading this that know all about the subject. What are the various

Hello.. I have a customer who wants to connect 2 PBX's over IP.. The setup should look like this: [PBX] <-- SS7 --> [Asterisk] <-- IAX --> [Asterisk] <-- SS7 --> [PBX] Since there are no SS7 cards , I was thinking at a way of carrying the E1 data as bulk...Can I do that ? How ? Is possible a scenario like this ? I'm thinking of IAX because I don't

Hello Everyone, We are currently having talks with various service providers, and trying to determine what the best way is to interconnect in order to have access to the PSTN network. As you know there are two ways of doing this: Traditional PRI: Have trunks grouped into a transport layer such as OC3/12. With DIDs attached to the group. As you many know, this approach would also require a POP

Hi, I have read about SS7 recently and learnt that it is a signalling protocol used in PSTN for call management, setup, etc. The thing that I don't understand is how SS7 plays a role in VOIP. When I make calls between landline and Asterisk via PSTN, I don't need to do anything with SS7. Is it because the SS7 signalling is already done by Asterisk already? From the prespective of

OK, that "VOIP dialtone?" thread was getting really out of hand, so I'll condense my answers into one big ugly message: 1) 911 service. Yes, that is one of three reasons to keep your PSTN line. The other two reasons are: Inbound calls from local callers still should work on a POTS line, for now. You can't find VOIP providers in most area codes, so you'll most

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

Does anyone know if there's a service out there to -- for a fee -- inject our DID into the LEC's CLI database so a called party gets our associated name? /rg

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,

I don't want to start the "How many calls can Asterisk handle?" discussion or "How many angels can stand on the point of a pin?" discussion either. But can anyone contribute some practical knowledge of systems that take in channel bank T1s or DS3s from "far away", and process the calls? I am looking for real world, been there, done that, or "check the

Dear List; I am trying to create a link between Asterisk and My softswitch, the link to be SIP Trunk. I did the below configuration and I do not know if any one can help me and advise me to have better configuration to be sure that link is fine. But I do not know how to determine the SIP username to be sent for my softswitch as sometimes the softswitch need to check it. Also, does asterisk

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we're evaluating the use of a Lucent APX8100 E3/SS7 to SIP gateway for use in conjunction with asterisk, serving something like 4000+ lines. does anyone have experience with the APX8100 and it's integration with SIP on asterisk ? does the APX8100 handle SS7<->SIP signalling well enough to be used ? any anecdotes would be well appreciated. -- Regards,

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Dear Alex; Thanks alot for your nice help. This is if I need to let Asterisk register with another softswitch (so I used register =>), what if I need asterisk to send call for the softswitch without register to it (directly)? If I removed the register => then how it will distiguish the IP address in the "host" at the [sip_trunk] is the IP address of the softswitch that need to

Hi List; If I need to do a trunk between Asterisk and another SIP softswitch (so Asterisk will send a SIP calls to that softswitch), then I have to configure this on the sip.conf file or where exactly? And is it the same when I configure iax trunk? Should I determine the context in this case for this SIP trunk? Regards Bilal

I've been working in the VoIP industry for just a bit over a year now... Mostly taking care of the underlying systems. I've now reached the point where I'm being drawn more and more into the call processing side of things. My background is in computer and "classic" telephony systems (DMS250/MTX, DSC 400, T1, channel banks. telabs analog echo supressor modules and