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

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Ooooh, I've got it working a treat, thanks to some great help from people on
this list. I *am* currently writing up a how to, and will post it as soon as
I'm done.

Basically, take the line from the meridian, and chop the rj45 off. (!) put
another RJ45 on, but with the wires crossed (IOW a cross over cable). Plug
the meridian into span 2 of the TE405. Take another cable, and plug from
span 1 of the TE405 into the  PRI line.

Make span 1 think it's a  pri_cpe , and span 2 a  pri_net and you're
laughing. Define zap/g1 as the list of channels on span 1, zap/g2 as the
list of channels on span 2, and

Dial(ZAP/g1/ExternalNumber) to dial the outside world, and
Dial(ZAP/g2/Extension) to dial an extension on the meridian.

Julian.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Stenton" <jacs at gnome.co.uk>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Confused of London - How to associate 
zapchannels to extensions


> How did you connect the Meridian to * via ISDN I thought you you could
> not connect two ISDN cards directly to each other or am I mistaken?
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 18:20, Jason Kawakami wrote:
>> ----- 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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