[Asterisk-Users] Multiple Outbound SIP Trunks

[Leif Neland]

---- Original Message ----
From: <steve at daviesfam.org>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:27
PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Outbound SIP Trunks

> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Pikoro wrote:
> 
>> There will be no discrimination or routes based on outbound calling,
>> like a certain trunk for international calls, another for local
>> calls, etc... Only a group of 10 SIP trunks to be rotated for all
>> outbound calls. 
> 
> 
> Can you explain what you mean by a "SIP trunk"?
> 
> SIP just has addresses - sometimes slightly hidden away in sip.conf
> behind a SIP peer.  So if you Dial(SIP/remotehost/number), a SIP
> invite is sent to the host IP address defined in the SIP peer in
> sip.conf.  If you Dial(SIP/number at hostname) then the invite is sent
> to the host "hostname". Normally it makes no difference to either
> side how many other calls may already by in progress between the two
> sides. 

Some providers allow only one outgoing call at a time.

Leif