[asterisk-users] Dedicated Codec Conversion Server

[Steve Totaro]

Um, yeah, the part you suggest is obvious.

What about having two different SIP accounts for each phone, I guess I 
need to do one for inbound and one for outbound?  Different extensions 
or whatever.

Thanks,
Steve

Klaverstyn, David C wrote:
> The way I would accomplish this is to have 2 Asterisk boxes.  Your
> conversion server would just have a dial plan to forward all calls to
> the Asterisk box that has the PSTN interface.  Once the PSTN Asterisk
> Server receives the calls it just routes the call based on dial plan
> rules.
>
> {Internet -> VPN} -> Conversion Server -> Asterisk PSTN.
>
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> Totaro
> Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2007 1:54 PM
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> Subject: [asterisk-users] Dedicated Codec Conversion Server
>
> I have a need for a large number of remote phones.  I want to use GSM 
> between the phones and the conversion server which will transcode to 
> ulaw eventually send or recieve calls via the PSTN (ulaw).
>
> I am curious is anyone has any ideas on the easiest way to create a 
> dedicated codec conversion box.  It will be running openvpn and so will 
> the remote PCs with softphones (x-lite).
>
> So I want the remote softphones to connect to the codec conversion 
> asterisk box and then send the call to the main Asterisk server as ulaw 
> and pass call in and out the pstn as ulaw.
>
> Any ideas for a simple implementation without creating all kinds of 
> funky conf files.  Seems simple but the solution eludes me (maybe 
> because I have been working over 18 hours.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
>