[Asterisk-Users] SIP Confusion

[John Todd]

Asterisk is a transcoder.  This means that calls to and from any 
channel type can be piped into any other channel type*.  This means 
that your TDM10B has output that gets piped into Asterisk, and then 
depending on what you dial and what your dialplan looks like, it can 
be sent out to another Zap channel (like your X100P, to the phone 
company) or through a SIP channel (like to Iconnecthere.com)

Yes, others use Iconnecthere.com's service (like me, for example.)  I 
also gateway my calls out through Nufone and my own PRI terminations 
in certain area codes; no special phone required - this is all done 
through the dialplan.  You could (as an example of crazy and 
meaningless dialplans) pipe your X100P through SIP so that anytime 
someone calls  your home number, they are automatically connected to 
your cellphone through Iconnecthere.com's long distance service.

Try reducing the complexity of your configuration down to a single 
machine with the TDM10B hooked up to it.  Read the examples that 
others have given for getting iconnecthere.com to work (see my 
now-tedious messages with references to my website with my own 
example files on it.)

JT



* (as long as you have the appropriate codecs, which at this time are 
the "industry default" of G.711u or G.711a, with G.729 as a 
purchasable option ($10 per channel).  Asterisk also uses GSM 
(non-Cisco) and ADPCM, which are used in inter-asterisk and other 
situations.)


>Ok.  I am confused.  I now have conflicting answers to my question:
>Do you need to use a special phone to use SIP?  My setup is
>X100P and TDM10B.
>
>I would like to connect to iConnectHere, which uses SIP.  Has anybody
>done this before (using similar equipment to what I have listed above)?
>
>And if it is not possible, could somebody please explain why.  I 
>don't understand
>why this wouldn't work.
>
>----[Extra 
>Information]----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>My current setup:
>
>On computer 192.168.10.50
>**sip.conf***
>[general]
>port=5060
>bindaddr=0.0.0.0
>context=default
>allow=gsm
>register=>comp1:mysecret at 192.168.10.51
>
>[comp2]
>type=friend
>username=comp2
>secret=bigsecret
>host=192.168.10.51
>
>**extensions.conf***
>[general]
>static=yes
>writeprotect=no
>
>[default]
>exten=>_221,1,Dial,SIP/comp2
>
>
>-=================
>On computer 192.168.10.51
>**sip.conf***
>[general]
>port=5060
>bindaddr=0.0.0.0
>context=default
>allow=gsm
>register=>comp2:bigsecret at 192.168.10.50
>
>[comp1]
>type=friend
>username=comp1
>secret=mysecret
>host=192.168.10.50
>
>**extensions.conf***
>[general]
>static=yes
>writeprotect=no
>
>[default]
>exten=>_220,1,Dial,SIP/comp1
>
>==============================
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>Thanks
>
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