The owner of my company has asked me to move the company to VoIP without buying an entire new system. I understand why he wants to take a half step.
I run a SwitchVox Free edition at home, but everything there is all SIP and I honestly have not “got into the guts of it” nor have I set up a stand alone Asterisk before.
My situation and question to the community here is can I do this:
Definity G3:
~256 analog line ports
~32 digital line ports
9 CO trunks
3 DID trunks
1 T1 (16 channels, used for long distance)
No IP capabilities without major firmware update
If I add a T1 card (have some spares) to the unit and set up an Asterisk PBX with a T1 card, can I set up Asterisk to take the incoming call from the Definity and dial it out on a SIP provider?
You can do that with no problem. We did some simmular setup, a G3 Avaya connected to an asterisk via an E1 (netherlands). We even have two E1 interfaces in the asterisk machine, 1 to the avaya, 1 to the public network and a sip connection to the internal users. We use asterisk as a lcr router (least cost routing).
Ok I will just attch to this post instead of starting a new one as its almost the same issue…
I need to know if this is possible with the Asterisk.
Inbound call on a PRI attached to the Asterisk, auto attendant give you 2 options A or B.
Press A your call goes over a point-to-point T1 to an Altigen system
Press B your call goes to an Iwatsu switch via an outbound PRI card
requirements:
The Asterisk needs to pass the caller ID info from the original inbound call to the transfered location.
The Asterisk needs to be able to act as a CO for the PRI connections between the Iwatsu and Asterisks so I can basically put in a corss over cable and have the two conected via PRI cards.
Can this be done? Anyone have anything like this working? See any pitfalls?