[asterisk-users] Setting up Asterisk to make calls using a VoIP provider and the regular phone line

Wed Sep 17 02:40:44 CDT 2008

Thanks a lot Nhadie. I appreciate your help.

Could you also suggest some brands or models of the FXO+FXS card that
are seamlessly compatible to Asterisk? Also what hardphone I should go
for as there are so many in the market?

What should be the configuration of the system running this kind of
Asterisk setup? And which Linux distribution is best suited with
Asterisk?

Thanks a lot for the help :).

Best Regards,
Hitesh

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Nhadie <nhadie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Logan,
>
> on your sip.conf  you define the sip trunk (which is the voip provider)
> e.g.
>
> [sipprovider]
> host=XX.XX.XX.XX
> type=peer
> ....
> ....
>
> and you have to define a user for your mother's extension, so her phone
> can register to your asterisk and also your extension:
>
> [1000]
> type=friend
> host=dynamic
> context=dial-out
> ....
> ....
>
> [1001]
> type=friend
> host=dynamic
> context=dial-out
> ....
> ....
>
> from india dialing out:
> and on your extensions.conf
>
> define a context:
>
> [dial-out]
> exten => _*1,1,Dial(SIP/yourmobilenumber at sipprovider)
>
> i suggested * instead of #, i think # is a special character on the
> asterisk dial plan.
> (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Dialplan+Patterns)
>
> the format of yourmobilenumber depends on how the sip provider accepts
> the digit sent to them.
>
> from canada to india dialing out to pstn, you will be needing an fxo
> card where you will plugin a line you could use to call locally in india.
>
> you will need to add something like this on the dial-out context
> exten => _X.,1,Dial(ZAP/1/{EXTEN})
> (http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+Zap+channels
> )
>
> there are a lot of fxo cards available, there are also cards with
> fxs+fxo on it if you really want a phone directly connected to your
> asterisk box.
>
> hth
>
> regards,
> nhadie
>
>
> logan wrote:
>> Thanks for the response, Nhadie.
>>
>> I don't want to setup an Asterisk box in Canada.
>>
>> For being able to call me, the Asterisk box in India would register to a SIP
>> provider (like the 2nd link you gave), and dial out the calls using it. I
>> just want that we should be able to dial calls using a hardphone so my
>> Mother could ring me up by just pressing #1 key on the set. I wanted to know
>> what hardware I would need to connect my Asterisk box to a hardphone (which
>> brand and all as there are so many options out there).
>>
>> Secondly, the Asterisk box in India would have a static IP, so I could
>> connect to it (or Register in SIP terms) and dial out calls using my
>> softphone over here. I would like to know what hardware I need to tell my
>> Asterisk box (in India) to dial out the calls using the telephone line
>> connected to it.
>>
>> This video talks about some of the stuff I would need, but I want some
>> second opinions on it -
>> http://www.videotutorialzone.com/voip-voice-over-ip/asterisk/introduction-to-the-asterisk-open-source-pbx-telephony-platform.html.
>>
>> And I would like to do all this with SIP as I'm familiar with it.
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nhadie" <nhadie at gmail.com>
>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Setting up Asterisk to make calls using a VoIP
>> provider and the regular phone line
>>
>>
>>> Hi Logan,
>>>
>>> If i am understanding your requirements correctly, i think this is what
>>> you require:
>>>
>>> for asterisk india to asterisk canada or vice versa:
>>> http://etel.wiki.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Peering_two_Asterisk_servers_using_IAX
>>>
>>> for calls to  sip provider:
>>> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+sip.conf
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> regards
>>> nhadie
>>>
>>> logan wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for some guidance from you guys. I know SIP well, but never
>>>> got a chance to play around with Asterisk, so looking forward to this
>>>> experiment.
>>>>
>>>> The thing is that I'm in Canada and would like to have an Asterisk box
>>>> at my place in India, which I want to be connected to a hardphone for
>>>> making calls to me. The idea here is that the Asterisk box will register
>>>> to a SIP provider, and since calls to North America are free via VoIP,
>>>> anyone could call me through the hardphone connected to the Asterisk box
>>>> (for eg, on pressing #1 Asterisk should place a call on my cell phone).
>>>> Once we get this done then I would like to connect to my Asterisk box
>>>> from Canada and ask it to make a call using the phoneline connected to
>>>> it. This way I could place calls in India using a local phone line.
>>>>
>>>> I'm really eager to play with Asterisk, so would be grateful if you
>>>> folks could tell me if the above is possible (I think for sure it's
>>>> possible) and what hardware I would need to accomplish it (system
>>>> configuration of my Asterisk box, which hardphone I should use to
>>>> connect to my Asterisk box, the device that would connect my regular
>>>> telephone landline to Asterisk, etc).
>>>>
>>>> Looking forward to listen from you all :).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Hitesh
>>>>
>>>>
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