[Asterisk-Users] Interconnecting two lans using Asterisk over a PSTN

[Jay Milk]

No, asterisk is a software pbx, not an IP router.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brice Muangkhot [mailto:bmuangkhot at yahoo.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 7:51 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Interconnecting two lans using 
> Asterisk over a PSTN
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am a newbie in Asterisk IP PBX but I am very impressed by 
> its functionalities. I have read that It can work over IP 
> network and across the PSTN. I am not very sure how it works 
> over the PSTN.. In case if people have not yet the Internet 
> or SDL access, I would like just to know if it is possible to 
> interconnect two IP LANs using the traditionnal analog 
> Network and Asterisk PBX? In such I would like to send voice 
> and data in the same media and all my IP applications should 
> work, it is like the PPP IP link over PSTN I would like to have.
> 
> If one have an Internet/SDL access is it possible to have a 
> dual access, in such if one network fails, I can switch 
> automatically to another? Here below the network architecture 
> I imagine.
> 
> (IP LAN1)-ASTERISK-(Digium FXO card)<-->(PSTN)<-->(Digium FXO 
> Card)-ASTERISK-(IP LAN 2)
> 
> Thank you so much for your help.