[Asterisk-Users] Re: Confused of London - How to associate zapchannels to extensions

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> if you are setting up station side T-1 then your zaptel.conf and 
> zapata.conf
> would define the signalling parameters for each of the channels, B &
> D-channels for the ISDN ZAP group, and FXS for the defined stations off of
> the TE405.  then your channel bank would break out the individual channels
> into a channel you can terminate to an analog telephone.

Well, no, not really - the "station" is actually the primary isdn card of 
the meridian pbx:

Originally we had

10 Channels isdn30<-->pbx<-->32 users (digital extensions)

We shoved * into the middle

10 Channels isdn30<-->*<-->pbx<-->32 users (digital extensions)

so, we have 32 digitial extensions running into the pbx, and from the pbx we 
have a 10 channel pri card into the te405

> so is ZAP/g1 the tie line to the meridian?  is extension 4321 an extension
> on the meridian or on *.

Yes, ZAP/g1 is the group of lines to the meridian. 4321 is an extension on 
the meridian.

>If you need to know the status of individual ZAP
> extensions then your zaptel.conf and zapata.conf will require that you
> physically map a channel to an extension and alter the dialing to

That's what I was afraid of - we have more extensions than channels ...

Thanks for your help.

Now - does anyone know if a pri card for the meridian is limited to 32 
channels (max) or is it the isdn pri line that is limited ? IOW, can I 
define 64 channels into the pri card from * , and 10 channels from * into 
the isdn pri line ?

Julian.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Kawakami" <jkkawakami at optellabs.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Confused of London - How to associate 
zapchannels to extensions


>
> ----- Original Message ----- >
> <snip>
>
>> I was playing around with the Flash Operator Panel, and came smack into a
>> brick wall.
>>
>> We have a * box linked to a legacy Meridian System using a EuroIDSN link
>> (TE405p) with 10 channels enabled. I also have several SIP extensions.
>
> So you have 10 channels of a tie line set up between the systems?
>>
>> What I wanted to do was to have a button for each of our (say) 32 users, 
>> 5
>> of which are on SIP. That leaves the other 27 on Zap. A potential of 27
>> users on 10 channels doesn't go, but we rarely have more than 8 channels
> in
>> use at any one time.
>
> if you are setting up station side T-1 then your zaptel.conf and 
> zapata.conf
> would define the signalling parameters for each of the channels, B &
> D-channels for the ISDN ZAP group, and FXS for the defined stations off of
> the TE405.  then your channel bank would break out the individual channels
> into a channel you can terminate to an analog telephone.
>>
>> Now, I can define a button for each of the SIP extensions easily. But how
> do
>> I do the same for the ZAP extensions, as the zap channel number may be
>> different each time a call is made to that extension ?
>
> havent messed with FOP but as I understand if you define individual 
> channels
> as extensions like I have talked about above then the button for extension
> xxxx is actually defined as ZAP/YY where YY is the individual channel 
> number
> on the TE405.
>>
>> In my extensions.conf, I simply dial the zap extension using the zap 
>> group
>> DIAL(zap/g1/4321)
>
> so is ZAP/g1 the tie line to the meridian?  is extension 4321 an extension
> on the meridian or on *.  If you need to know the status of individual ZAP
> extensions then your zaptel.conf and zapata.conf will require that you
> physically map a channel to an extension and alter the dialing to
> DIAL(ZAP/YY,time,options) where again YY is the individual channel number 
> on
> the TE405.
>
> hope that clears things up
>
> Jason Kawakami
> www.optellabs.com
>
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