[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk to Vonage

[Deon Rodden]

When I initially signed up with Packet8 and they sent their converter, I 
used a X100P card in my Asterisk server so that it could send and 
receive calls through Packet8, I suspect the same trick would work for 
Vonage.

The benefit is you can then have several phones in the house, or one at 
work, or a softphone in your laptop, register with your Asterisk server 
and then you can place and receive unlimited local/long distance calls 
through your Vonage account.  You can also have Asterisk answer and you 
can use it's IVR/Automated Attendant functionalities.

You will be limited to only 1 inbound/outbound call at a time though.  I 
eventually canned Packet8 in favor of BroadVoice, $19.95 a month, 
unlimited local and long distance, and I've tested up to 6 inbound calls 
at the same time and it worked.

Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>
> On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Chris Shaw wrote:
>
>> I hold no ill will towards Vonage but I have to say honestly... ewww...
>>
>> They've already made their feelings quite clear by refusing to allow 
>> people
>> to bring their own devices and taking steps to even hide their SIP 
>> servers
>> (changing the port from the RFC standard 5060 to 5061 for example.) 
>> Why not
>> go with someone who's actually willing to allow you to use Asterisk 
>> and any
>> phone you want like NuFone, BroadVoice, IconnectHere or a host of others
>> instead of trying to hack Vonage...
>
>
> At least when I signed up with Vonage they were the only VoIP provider 
> that had numbers in my old rate center and could transfer the number 
> from SBC.   It does, of course, suck not to be able to use it with 
> Asterisk.  (I could sign up for a soft-phone, but I don't think it'd 
> be with my old number defeating the purpose...)
>
>
>  - ask
>