[Asterisk-Users] Residential services

[Don Feuer]

 Has anyone setup the Asterisk platform to run on a 64 bit Solaris box with
multiple processors to get more calls out of Asterisk??

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From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jesse Peterson
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 12:23 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Cc: Jeremy Jones
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Residential services

It will suite you well to fumble around with asterisk for several days and
to keep reading all the documentation tidbits you can find. That will really
help get you aquainted with asterisk and the support/documentation that is
available. Most of the good info I've found has come from the wiki and from
reading through list archives.

Your dialplan question isn't too hard. I'll leave it up to you to make sure
your contexts are included/excluded correctly. Basically all you need to do
is make sure that "ignorepat => 9" is commented out (so ";ignorepat => 9) in
any context that should use normal dialing. Then you have 2 extensions,
either this for 10 digit dialing exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1, Dial, ${OUTTRUNK}
exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1, Dial, ${OUTTRUNK} or this for 7 digit:
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1, Dial, ${OUTTRUNK} exten => _NXXXXXX,1, Dial,
${OUTTRUNK}

of course you are also on your own to make sure "${OUTTRUNK}" is working
correctly.

I haven't done outbound to the PSTN with a Cisco setup, but I have with a
Lucent setup (mvam as gk and tnts for pstn access). I've had to use OH323
channel instead of the included H323 channel. To get Asterisk to register w/
my gk as a gateway instead of a terminal. Basically, I did this:
1) setup a gateway called 'ASTERISK' on my gk (mvam)
2) in oh323.conf:
gatekeeper = 192.168.0.50
[register]
alias = ASTERISK       ;or whatever name you used on your gatekeeper
prefix = 9990000000    ;oh323 was complaining there were no prefixes
registered... so a bogus one fixed that. my gatekeeper seems to just ignore
it anyway.
3) in my extensions.conf, I dial to "OH3223/BYEXTENSION", so in my above
10digit dialing example, it would be:
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1, Dial, OH3223/BYEXTENSION exten => _NXXNXXXXXX,1,
Dial, OH3223/BYEXTENSION

the 'BYEXTENSION' part just take the number as matched by the exten option
and passed it out to the gatekeep OH323 has registered with and routes based
on it's response.

Now, as far as residential services. Test, test, test. Then test a little
more before you decide you can run production services. In some non-formal
testing, myself and another fella using approx. the same setup (basically *
as a sip<->h323 gateway) have found we could not run more than about 20-25
simultaneous calls. With typical telecom oversubscription rates, you're not
going to get very many customers on an asterisk box.
If you do manage to get it to handle a decent number of calls, I'm sure many
people would be interested in your configuration.


jesse


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Jones [mailto:jjones at westcomllc.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:52
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Residential services


Hi folks,

The obligatory newbie disclaimer:

"Hi, I'm new to Asterisk and I have a couple questions..."

OK, now that that's over with:

I've just started working for a small CLEC, and I'm trying to sell * to my
boss as a replacement for some expensive/inflexible/closed-source
software he's been using to provide residential dialtone with for a couple
years now.  Presently, we have:

1) a cluster of sun boxes running propriatary IP-PBX software
2) a cisco 3640 h323 gatekeeper
3) a cisco as5300 pstn gateway

I'd like to use sip between an asterisk box and that as5300 (which right now
is only speaking h323), and I'd like to be able to use sip, h323, mgcp, or
skinny for residential customers.  This ought to be no problem, right?  I'm
coming up with pretty much nil on documentation regarding as5300 <->
asterisk configuration, however.  And, while I'm sure I could fumble through
it for a couple days, I thought there just might be someone out there who
has a working configuration using an as5300 as a pstn gateway with asterisk
(either with sip, or with h323 via a cisco gatekeeper).

Now, regarding residential services in particular...

The configuration files & examples I've found all assume a business
environment, where you'd dial a 9 for outside lines.  Anyone have an example
config where an endpoint gets dumped directly to the pstn when they pick up
the phone?

Thnaks,
Jeremy Jones

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