[Asterisk-Users] Question about remote POTS lines

[Gregory Junker]

How remote are the remote offices? Miles? States? Countries? Best of my 
knowledge, the days of exchanges based on proximity to a particular CO 
are over, and those numbers (assuming they are in the same area code) 
often can be routed anywhere. You could also look into having a company 
like VoicePulse take over the PSTN termination and shoot you a VoIP link 
to the central * server.

Greg

Jim Dossey wrote:
> I have a client who asked me about a situation they have.  They have a 
> main office and 3 remote offices.  We are installing an Asterisk server 
> at the main office with SIP phones in the remotes.  Each remote office 
> only has 1 person.  The remote offices currently have a POTS line that 
> has a published number.  They want to keep that number.  The problem is 
> that they would like to somehow link those remote POTS lines back to the 
> main office, so people in the main office can answer their calls when 
> they are away.  They could install an asterisk server in those remote 
> offices and link them back to the main office, but that seems like 
> overkill for a single POTS line.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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