[asterisk-users] Asterisk Data Calls

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 10:20:15 Brent Davidson wrote:
> I'm using the Rhino R4FXO cards to answer incoming voice calls and just
> had this idea last night...  Is there any type of module for asterisk
> that will divert a call to a softmodem?  For example, I call in on the
> voice lines, get the main menu, instead of dialing an extension to get a
> person I dial an extension and am given modem tones.  ( I basically want
> to have a way to dial in to my offices without having to have dedicated
> data lines and RAS servers.  I know I could probably make this work by
> sticking a modem in the box and using an FXS port to route to the call
> to the modem, but that is messy, in my opinion, and I would like to
> avoid that if possible.  Is this at all possible?  (I don't want to
> route the data "audio" over IP.  I know that would be largely impossible.)

There is not, although I don't see any reason why it couldn't be done.  There
is a ZapRAS application which performs much of this same function, although
it only works on ISDN lines (where the line signal is already a digital stream
of bits).

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Tilghman