[NCLUG] Asterisk & T1

[Marcio Luis Teixeira]

Jeff:

I decided to call frii myself and spoke with a very
helpful engineer there about your question. He said
they do not offer integrated T1s, but rather offer
data only lines with the option for VoiP over it. They
said they may be able to offer trunking for Asterisk,
but that would still be a data, rather than voice
line. They offered to get me some quotes for that.
I'll forward that to you when I get it.

If you really wanted to make your own VoiP gateway,
FRII did give me the names of two competitors who
offer a T1 with a mixed voice and data channels, but
1) I doubt you really want to change providers just
for the experiment 2) they were so helpful that I
would feel bad for passing on the information to one
of their existing clients, especially since I called
under quasi-false pretenses (I said I was a teacher
and I could use the information for my class, which is
absolutel true, but I didn't say I was going to pass
it on to one of their clients!).

If you're just wanting to learn about asterisk, I
think  you're better off just using an existing
provider rather than try to do your own gateway.
Several companies offer very cheap gateways for
asterisk. A possible service may be
"www.livevoip.com", which offers prepaid VoiP trunking
for asterisk, which may be good for occasional use or
learning projects. Caveat emptor: I haven't tried them
myself, so your mileage may vary.

-- Marcio


 
--- jeff <jeff at themoes.org> wrote:
> Marcio Luis Teixeira wrote:
> >>So, ideally I would like data bandwidth to FRII
> and
> >>have some channels 
> >>dynamically allocated to the PSTN. Or, if that
> isn't
> >>possible, have a 
> >>few channels dedicated to the PSTN.
> > 
> > 
> > I just looked online and it appears as if Asterisk
> > does support this particular card. Apparently one
> of
> > the configurations is related to what channel to
> use,
> > so I'm wondering if it is possible to configure
> > asterisk to use four lines of the card. The
> question
> > then becomes, can you set up some other service on
> > that box to bridge the remaining channels to your
> LAN?
> 
> As far as the Sangoma and the OS, it appears to be
> possible (and pretty 
> straightforward) to mix voice & data. I've installed
> their drivers and 
> went through their ncurses config tool and it's
> pretty nice (I did this 
> without a card installed).
> 
>   The part I don't fully understand is the
> provisioning of the line itself.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jeff
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