[Asterisk-Users] Info on UK ISDN30e?

[Anthony Wood]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:29:17PM +0000, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:10:09PM -0000, Linus Surguy wrote:
> 
> > One option you might not have considered is connect your existing PBX
> > to the back of Asterisk and thereby use it as a channel bank itself.
> 
> Very interesting :)
> 
> There *is* an 'S-bus' (which is the same as an 'S0-bus'?) I'm told, 
> which we run 4 faxmodems off - I'm not exactly sure /how/ they connect, 
> tbh.. will need to check that out... Perhaps they're just 4 POTS 
> analogue extensions...

S-bus might be ISDN BRI ports, in which case Asterisk can plug in
with an AVM Fritz (~110 euro) and chan_capi.
 
> This would be the ideal testing ground for Asterisk (for me to learn on) 
> since hopefully we could pass the incoming number to the S0-bus, hence 
> Asterisk, hence any IP Phones we buy as a technology demo.
> 
> The idea of taking a fresh ISDN30 and trying to get everything working 
> from day 1 terrifies me :)
> 
> We've looked at 'myPBX' from 
> http://www.telappliant.net/site2/mypbx_solution.htm
> 
> And whilst I like the idea of a pre-configured appliance, I don't know 
> if you get root access, etc. since we will need to write our own 
> applications, etc.

AGI (asterisk gateway interface??) is an application interface for Asterisk, which can use perl, C, php and probably other languages...

> As always, I'm open to ideas =)

A good philosophy.

cheers,
Woody