[Asterisk-Users] Re: Confused of London - How to associate zap channels to extensions

[Chris Stenton]

How did you connect the Meridian to * via ISDN I thought you you could
not connect two ISDN cards directly to each other or am I mistaken?

Chris

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 18:20, Jason Kawakami wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- >
> <snip>
> 
> > I was playing around with the Flash Operator Panel, and came smack into a
> > brick wall.
> >
> > We have a * box linked to a legacy Meridian System using a EuroIDSN link
> > (TE405p) with 10 channels enabled. I also have several SIP extensions.
> 
> So you have 10 channels of a tie line set up between the systems?
> >
> > What I wanted to do was to have a button for each of our (say) 32 users, 5
> > of which are on SIP. That leaves the other 27 on Zap. A potential of 27
> > users on 10 channels doesn't go, but we rarely have more than 8 channels
> in
> > use at any one time.
> 
> if you are setting up station side T-1 then your zaptel.conf and zapata.conf
> would define the signalling parameters for each of the channels, B &
> D-channels for the ISDN ZAP group, and FXS for the defined stations off of
> the TE405.  then your channel bank would break out the individual channels
> into a channel you can terminate to an analog telephone.
> >
> > Now, I can define a button for each of the SIP extensions easily. But how
> do
> > I do the same for the ZAP extensions, as the zap channel number may be
> > different each time a call is made to that extension ?
> 
> havent messed with FOP but as I understand if you define individual channels
> as extensions like I have talked about above then the button for extension
> xxxx is actually defined as ZAP/YY where YY is the individual channel number
> on the TE405.
> >
> > In my extensions.conf, I simply dial the zap extension using the zap group
> > DIAL(zap/g1/4321)
> 
> so is ZAP/g1 the tie line to the meridian?  is extension 4321 an extension
> on the meridian or on *.  If you need to know the status of individual ZAP
> extensions then your zaptel.conf and zapata.conf will require that you
> physically map a channel to an extension and alter the dialing to
> DIAL(ZAP/YY,time,options) where again YY is the individual channel number on
> the TE405.
> 
> hope that clears things up
> 
> Jason Kawakami
> www.optellabs.com
> 
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