[Asterisk-Users] vonage and asterisk

[John Todd]

The bad news is that Vonage won't give you the information on your 
phone, so you can't use it "directly" from Asterisk via SIP.  I would 
suggest you don't use their service.

There are two alternatives:
   1) You can buy an X100P card from Digium, which then connects to 
your supplied ATA-186, and you can make calls go to the "PSTN" from 
Asterisk, which will really be terminating on your ATA-186.  This is 
a terrible kludge, and is silly.

   2) You can use another SIP/IAX provider for your long distance.  I 
use iconnecthere.com, who coincidentally charges less but only has a 
1000 minute plan.

JT


>I've been reading all I can in order to try to implement an asterisk
>setup. In speaking with someone the other day, they advised they thought
>there was a way to make a SIP or softphone (gnophone) go straight out to
>the vonage network through asterisk.  I already have vonage set up with an
>ATA 186.  What I'm wondering is is there some way that I could direct dial
>from a softphone (gnophone) to vonage network through Asterisk?  Please
>excuse me if I'm using SIP and softphone in incorrect ways, I'm a bit new
>to the telephony aspect.  Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>AJ
>
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