[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as a VoIP Gateway to an Analog PBX

[Chris Shaw]

Hello all,

I am a relative asterisk noob so please bear with me if my questions are obvious. What I'm trying to do is get our analog PBX (A Merlin Legend) connected to VoIP. From all my googling and reading voip-info.org (and this list) it seems very possible. I just wanted to describe my setup and see if I'm going in the right direction.

What I'd like to do is set up an asterisk box with a T405P Quad-Span T1 Card. I am planning to drop all voice lines and switch to a full data T1. Span 1 would be pure data (PPP encapsulation) coming from the Telco. Span 2 would be all voice channels, going into an CAC Adit 600 Channel Bank with 3 FXS cards and from there into the PBX. 

I would really like to use a provider who supports IAX2 termination like NuFone, or VoicePulse but VoicePulse dosen't have a local DID (We're located in Portland, Oregon) and it dosen't look like they provide (8XX) number service. NuFone has a nice website but absolutely NO info on their rates/services/etc... when I call I just get music so I don't entirely trust that they'll always be there. If anyone can recommend a good IAX2 service that would be excellent! I'm thinking about just using iconnecthere.com with a SIP connection for now...