[Asterisk-Users] Dual PRI fail over

Paul Mahler psvwm at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 11 21:13:45 MST 2005


If you have a PRI, many vendors will support sending calls to an alternate
destination if the T1 is down. SBC, for example, calls this "enhanced alternte
routing." If the T1 fails, call are routed to the destination of your choice at
the SS7 switch. 

Paul
pmahler at signate.com

--- Tom <tom at technerve.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I currently have a single PRI however we are getting a second PRI, and the
> provider (qwest) wants to know if our PBX supports GSAS (they say its a
> redundant d-channel technology but searching on google for GSAS reveals less
> than nothing).  I've set something similar up before on a cisco 5350, where
> if
> one of the PRIs fails, all of the calls destined for either PRI will be
> routed
> down the one that didn't fail.  Basically the 2 PRIs are bonded together, and
> act as one.  During normal operation the calls come down each PRI in a load
> balanced fashion (IE if I've got 30 calls up, 15 will be on one PRI and 15 on
> the other).
> 
> Is there any way to set something similar to this up in Asterisk?
> Tom
> 
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Paul Mahler
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