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Hi All, Until now I've only used IAX2 to connect to ITSPs. I've been toying with a SIP connection to Gizmo Project, but not yet successfully. It brings to mind a question. At what point does it make sense to consider a SIP-aware firewall such as those from Ingate? I'd hate to move away from my m0n0wall, which is open source, easy to manage and has served me brilliantly for two

Hi All, I was just reading through Info Week while on a flight and happened upon an brief piece about a new VOIP security intiative worked up by a handful of the usual suspects; Alcatel, SMU, NIST, Symantec, etc. All of this begs the question of can't we get just do this as a user community? I understand that the Zultys phone, which I own several, support AES encryption of the RTP stream.

Hi All, For a small installation using ITSPs via DSL is G.729 a worthwhile exercise? I have G.729 capable SIP phones and my ITSPs cupport the codec so I could go end-to-end without transcoding. What's call quality like compared to G.711, GSM or iLBC? Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com

Here's t link: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JUEFVG ENEA01YQSNDBCCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=165702588 The bottom line is that they compare retail VOIP providers like Comcast Cable, Time-Warner Cable, AT&T, Vonage, Packet8 et al. Their methodology seems sound. Their conclusion is that retail VOIP services don't yet match the PSTN for reliability &

Is there some concensus on where to set callerid when making outgoing calls via an ITSP over IAX? Is this best accomplished in IAX.CONF or EXTENSIONS.CONF? Also, tech support at one ITSP told me that the SetCIDName command doesn't do anything. Is this something that might be unique to their server? Or a general statement of fact? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Graves

Does IAXy2 have any internal diaplan? What I need to do is have a phone that when picked up automatically dials out in a hotline fashion. I know that I can setup Sipura devices to do this, but I'd rather use IAX2. Alternatively, do any of the cheapish SIP phone support this sort of internal dialplan functionality? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Graves

Does anyone on-list have any experience with this device? It's a 6 port FXO<>SIP gateway. Michael Graves -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. mgraves@mstvp.com o713-861-4005 o800-905-6412 c713-201-1262 fwd 54245

Does anyone have any experience using this DLink quad FXO <> SIP gateway with Asterisk? I'm still looking for an analog interface that I can live with, having tried X101p, SPA-3000 and TDM400...all with less than desirable results. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power

Hello, I bought a copy of this software in the hope of bridging Skype into my * box. It sort of works but the audio is all distorted and there's huge latency. Does someone have this working well with their * server? According to the wiki someone does, but I don't know who. I'm needing advise on what to fiddle with to get it working correctly. Thanks Michael -- Michael Graves

Does anyone on-list have direct experience with the new analog cards from Sangoma? I'm thinking about FXOs with echo cans. Need 2-4 ports but don't want to go through another TDM400 style experience. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc.

Has anyone here ever tried using a wifi bridge to place a deskset in someplace where there was no LAN drop? If so what hardware did you use and was it succesful? Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. mgraves@mstvp.com o713-861-4005

'http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20cmd%20DISA' This should help. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Graves [mailto:mgraves@mstvp.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:32 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] dialplan logic for conditional DISA on incomming 800 number Hi All, I have an 800 number from

Hi All, I'm on of those brave souls who bought into the preproduction beta of the Sipura SPA-3000 FXS/FXO adapter. I've had the unit a few days and am exploring it's workings. I really want it mostly as a straightforward FXO adapter, to replace an X101p. Let me be clear, I'd love to support Digium in every way possibe, and will likely buy a TDM40 card shortly. But, the X101p has

Have the Sayson IP phon started to deliver yet? I'm thinking about two new phones for my office and considering the Sayson 480i and Zultys 4x4. Would also consider the Virbiage phone if it becomes available. I have Snom 200s and a Pingtel phone at the moment. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist

Hello All, I'm not certain that I have my firewall setup to perform traffic shaping correctly for *. I'm using a m0n0wall running on a Soekris 4501 platform. I have traffic shaping set to provide IAX port 4569 with priority outbound access from LAN to WAN. All other outbound access is lower priority. This should in theory accomodate my ADSL connection which is 1.5 Mbps inbound but only

...my VoicePulse Connect account is timing out on its login requests. Was working fine a hour ago. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr. Product Specialist www.pixelpower.com Pixel Power Inc. mgraves@mstvp.com o713-861-4005 o800-905-6412 c713-201-1262 "Can't you see it all makes perfect

Hi All, I'm using DISA on my * server to avoid overseas toll charges when making calls to Western Europe from my cell phone. I have DISA working with a DID from a VoicePulse Connect account. The outgoing call to Europe is also made via Voicepulse Connect. I see that the IAX media path is bridging the inbound call to the outbound call so that the media stream entirely bypasses my server once

That about says it. I upgraded from 1/24/2004 to the most recent CVS and my calls through VoicePulse Connect over IAX2 are simply unusable. What's the story on this? Is there some setup that I'm missing? I had jitterbuffer=no, changed it to yess with no apparent effect. Michael FWIW, have attemped to open an account with Nufone 3 days ago. It has yet to be activated. -- Michael Graves

Hi All, Last week I started hearing a huge amount of local end echo on incomming calls. I am using a Sipura SPA-3000 as my FXO connected to an SBC POTS line. Echo cancellation is enabled in the SPA firmware. As a test I switched to a Digium X100 card the still lives in my server but the echo was about the same. I have both Polycom IP600 and SNOM 200 phone, which both hear the echo. I'm

Hi All, A friend has asked me to get a new Zultys 4x5 working with his * server. I've been over the web gui but don't see where all the registration info gets entered in the phone. Is there someone on-list who has Zultys phones and can advise me as to their setup? The manufacturers docs are useless. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves@pixelpower.com Sr.