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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looking forward to listen from you all
:).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best Regards,<BR>Hitesh</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>