[Asterisk-Users] VoiceBlue GSM

[Etienne Pretorius]

Sorry for my delayed response Selon ,

I am setting up a test Asterisk box in our company to replace our 
current switchboard and well -
GSM connection was one of the requirements for me to do to allow 
asterisk to replace our switchboard.
(The others are not going to well... or they are finally done)

Some digging around produced a Falcon 2D GSM modem... but I can't find 
nor imagine how to connect that device to
asterisk (physically: a serial connection to the box is easy) but how 
asterisk will use it is a completely different question.

And well the aim of the game is to impress - and to get asterisk to 
replace our PBX.

"2-) You can buy a voip2GSM Gateway. To which you no longer need 
hardware..."

I was under the impression that you require hardware to connect your 
asterisk box up to the GSM network.

Anyway, all that I require is a means to connect to a GSM provider 
(cellular network) to make and receive cellular calls.
I have been googling a bit and the list has some info about it, but 
people were talking about using a Siemens Home station or the like...
and that sounded a bit like a work-around to me. Then VoiceBlue... well, 
it looked good - I mean, it says it'll do everything that I will
require and that it works with asterisk. (I presume as a SIP device or 
the like that you Dial). That was it - I could not find a price on
the web you see - the South African Rand does not fair well against USD 
or the GBP... so I need to know if it is a solution for me.

The added bit was the SMS capability - that I know asterisk can do but I 
need to see if the hardware supports it.
To send - should be easy... to receive will be more difficult. But both 
is desired.

(Asterisk+OpenXchange) just a thought.

Kind Regards
Etienne

ht at phonitel.com wrote:

>Etienne,
>
>I am not sure I understand all what you require. Do you need to know the cost of
>the voiceblue of 2N or you need to find solution that can allow you send GSM
>calls ?
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>There are several alternatives:
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>1-) Voiceblue as you mentioned;
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>2-) You can buy a voip2GSM Gateway. To which you no longer need hardware, you
>just register the voip2GSM devise to Asterisk and then it is ready to receive
>and send calls just like any other sip phone. Cost of this is around 400 USD /
>UNIT
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>When you talk about sms capability, dyou want to originate or receive SMSs
>through the devise?
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>Selon Etienne Pretorius <etiennep at kingsley.co.za>:
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>>Hello All * users.
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>>I have been looking for a way to allow GSM termination through Asterisk
>>to occur. I am not a Telekom fundi and I have set up IAX2/IAX/SIP on
>>asterisk with the ZAP channels via the Digium TDM 400P. I am unable to
>>find any place that can tell me the cost of the VoiceBlue with a
>>currency to I can calculate the cost of buying one. Alternativly - or
>>just out of interist - I only really need to handle one GSM call @ a
>>time and have a SMS capability... is there anyone that can suggest the
>>best way to do so without doing a hack/patch to make a device to
>>interact with asterisk?
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>>--
>>Kind Regards
>>Etienne
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