[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk to Vonage

[Doug Shubert]

Deon,
When you say "I've tested up to 6 inbound calls at the same time"
with Broadvoice, is this with 6 $19.95 DID numbers that you have 
assigned to *?
thanks
Doug


Deon Rodden wrote:

> When I initially signed up with Packet8 and they sent their converter, 
> I used a X100P card in my Asterisk server so that it could send and 
> receive calls through Packet8, I suspect the same trick would work for 
> Vonage.
>
> The benefit is you can then have several phones in the house, or one 
> at work, or a softphone in your laptop, register with your Asterisk 
> server and then you can place and receive unlimited local/long 
> distance calls through your Vonage account.  You can also have 
> Asterisk answer and you can use it's IVR/Automated Attendant 
> functionalities.
>
> You will be limited to only 1 inbound/outbound call at a time though.  
> I eventually canned Packet8 in favor of BroadVoice, $19.95 a month, 
> unlimited local and long distance, and I've tested up to 6 inbound 
> calls at the same time and it worked.
>
> Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2004, at 4:17 PM, Chris Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> I hold no ill will towards Vonage but I have to say honestly... ewww...
>>>
>>> They've already made their feelings quite clear by refusing to allow 
>>> people
>>> to bring their own devices and taking steps to even hide their SIP 
>>> servers
>>> (changing the port from the RFC standard 5060 to 5061 for example.) 
>>> Why not
>>> go with someone who's actually willing to allow you to use Asterisk 
>>> and any
>>> phone you want like NuFone, BroadVoice, IconnectHere or a host of 
>>> others
>>> instead of trying to hack Vonage...
>>
>>
>>
>> At least when I signed up with Vonage they were the only VoIP 
>> provider that had numbers in my old rate center and could transfer 
>> the number from SBC.   It does, of course, suck not to be able to use 
>> it with Asterisk.  (I could sign up for a soft-phone, but I don't 
>> think it'd be with my old number defeating the purpose...)
>>
>>
>>  - ask
>>
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