[asterisk-users] CALEA support within asterisk?

[Rich Adamson]

Matthew Thompson wrote:
> On 3 Oct 2006, at 19:53, Colin Anderson wrote:
> 
>>> I, for one, welcome our new Republican overlords.
>>
>> lol you are just full of pop culture references, aren't you?
> 
> Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
> 
> Seriously though - is anyone aware of a precis of CALEA? I'm about to 
> install an Asterisk setup into our US office and being a Brit in the UK 
> I'm not totally up on what your Republic overlords are upto.

If you're simply installing asterisk as a pbx in your US office, you 
probably don't have to do anything (for calea). If you are routing voip 
calls in a manner more closely resembling the functions of a pstn 
central office switch where calls through the asterisk system can be 
to/from anyone (eg, outside your business), then you probably need to 
keep a close eye on this thread.

As one of the other gentlemen on this list suggested, calls originated 
from your UK office passing through your US asterisk box to your 
customers (or potential customers) are not governed by calea laws as the 
calea function would be implemented by the US telco in this case. The 
exact same applies in the reverse direction. Regardless of which 
direction the call is flowing in this case, the telco provides the 
necessary calea functions.