[Asterisk-Users] Information setting up asterisk with an ISDN NT

[Michiel van Baak]

On 20:00, Tue 19 Jul 05, Steven Liechti wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> First of all, I've been reading a lot and a lot about asterisk and ISDN-BRI,
> but is really a complicated world, not like PRI or Analog.
> 
> I have 2 offices with 2 NT boxes and I want to connect them with Asterisk to
> route outgoing from one office two the other. At the end I want them to look
> like this Office2 will have only VoIP phones (not ISDN phones connected to a
> card in asterisk) and routing all traffic to the asterisk in office1 which
> then makes the call. I also want to port the extension numbers from Office2
> to Office1 and let asterisk use them for outgoing calls (I think I have to
> have a card supporting DID?) both asterisk are connected with SIP or AIX,
> don't know yet, but that is the easy part...
> 
> Questions?
> Is this scenario possible?
> Which card(s) should I use with Asterisk in Office1 in order to use the
> ported numbers from Office2? I was thinking in a AVM C2 card which has 4
> voice channels but i'm not sure about this DDI stuff.
> 

Answer 1: yes, this is possible.
Answer 2: Get yourself a Junghanns QuadBRI (8 audio
channels) or a OctoBRI (16 audio channels).
I haven't played with the OctoBRI, but the QuadBRI rox.
If your telco allows you to set your outgoing callerid to
one of the assigned MSN's your all set.
Stability and sound quality are very good on the QuadBRI in
the setup I put it in for production.

Just my experience.
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