[asterisk-users] Premicell solutions?

[Gordon Henderson]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Steve Davies wrote:

> On 28 February 2010 15:28, Gordon Henderson <gordon+asterisk at drogon.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, LATEEF, IRFAN (ATTSI) wrote:
>>
>>> Gordon ,
>>> Are you referring to Femto Cells ??
>>
>> No - devices like the Portech boxes - they take SIM card(s) and present
>> each one as a SIP interface.
>>
>> Although I guess if you've got spare ISDN ports and are happy configuring
>> them, then a GSM -> ISDN device will work, but I think using SIP over
>> Ethernet might be easier to get going (and possibly cheaper)
>>
>> e.g. any of the boxes on this page
>>
>>   http://www.voipon.co.uk/portech-voip-gsm-gateway-c-3_192_193.html
>>
>> but obviously sourced local to whatever country you're in.
>>
>
> Thank you!
>
> I am in the UK, so that page looks good. Are these devices something
> you have experience of using with Asterisk? I was only suggesting ISDN
> because I've heard of SIP interop issues, but not ISDN interop issues
> :)

I've only used those for outgoing calls - when they seem to work just 
fine. I can't imagine there would be any issues with incoming - presumably 
get them to call some dialplan code to some sort of validation (PIN) then 
DISA to allow dialling an internal extension..

Gordon