[Asterisk-Users] Design Consideration

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:26, Lenny Post wrote:
> I've been looking at Asterisk now for several weeks and have had success using it with SIP based soft phones on a local network.  I'm having some issues going to the next level (i.e. designing the system I want).  Essentially this is what I want to do
> 
> PSTN <-PRI-> Asterisk <---- Satellite ---> VoIP Gateway (i.e. Dlink)
> 
> I would have many remote sites configured like this.
> 
> >From what I understand the Dlink can use the G.729e codec, but Asterisk cannot decode/encode that format to carry it over the PSTN.  What options do I have that I can make this work or am I missing something obvious?  What would you guys/gals do?  Is anybody doing something similar?  Preferred codecs, protocols, or hardware?
> 
> I have a Voice over Frame technology working over satellite for several years and I'm looking for an IP based solutions (note I have got the VoFR technology working over IP but the price is prohibitive)

You may want to investigate using remote asterisk boxes as IAX is easier
to deal with than SIP is, and you get to compress via GSM. As soon as
the 4 port card comes out, it might be exactly what you need instead of
the Dlink gateway.
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>