[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk & Avaya Legend

[Lacy Moore - Aspendora]

Thanks Sean!

Fortunately, I don't think I will have to worry about passing extensions
back and forth between Asterisk and the Legend.  But, I'm glad to know that
it is possible, if the situation arises.  We don't have that many users.  My
concern is just making sure that the two can coexist for a while.  We're
going to use the savings from switching to the PRI to purchase the rest of
the equipment, and I'll be keeping everyone connected to the Legend.  Once
we are able to start purchasing the IP phones, I'll move one company at a
time over.  During this transition, we shouldn't have to worry about
extension to extension going through both.

Light bulb just went off.  Looking at this:

[from-pstn]
exten => 482,1,Dial(Zap/g0/482)

So if I have all 10 digits being passed and someone placed a call to one of
our DIDs, for example, 281-604-0532, the dial plan would look like:

[from-pstn]
exten => 2816040532,1,Dial(Zap/g0/2816040532)

If so, I sure wish the Legend was that easy to setup!  I'll probably have to
get someone to set it up.  The card came in yesterday for the Asterisk
server, so I'll be able to start playing with things.  I'm guessing I can
send my own DID information to the Legend so that before the PRI even gets
installed I can have everything set up and waiting.

Honestly, working with Asterisk is one of the "Oh cool!" moments.

On 3/23/06, Sean Cook <scook at kinex.net> wrote:
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> > Now, here is what I'm not sure of at this moment. For the time
> > being, is it possible to just pass the PRI through the Asterisk to
> > the Legend? Will there by any type of dialplans or anything that
> > need to be created? Will it pass the DID information through? I
> > was trying to look at this from the perspective that the Legend
> > will be a channel bank, but I don't think that's a correct
> > assumption. I think this more closely fits tying two Asterisk
> > servers together with a T1, but I haven't been able to find any
> > info on this.
>
> basically you will receive the DID information and pass it straight
> through to the DS1
>
> [from-pstn]
> exten => 482,1,Dial(Zap/g0/482)
>
> It should be pretty straight forward... our setup is similar but the
> asterisk system is configured internally not between the telco and legend.
>
> > Can anyone offer any pointers, or maybe point out anything obvious
> > that I am missing? Or, even confirm that what I'm trying to do is
> > possible. I have the two port card on order and would like to play
> > with it before the PRI gets installed. I don't like working in
> > theory on this, I'd feel much better with the equipment in hand,
> > even without the PRI, I can still setup a VoIP account and make
> > sure that I can pass the call through the Asterisk into the Legend.
> >
> The only thing that I am not sure of is how the legend will be passing
> additional extension across the PRI so that you can dial a local
> extension that is on the Asterisk side...  I suppose if you set up
> 4000-4999 in UDP and pass it on the PRI you should be pretty good to
> go, provided that you have did's for every extension set up within the
> legend.  (even if they are fake did's not necessarily from the telco)
>
> >
> > Assuming all this works, I think just having Asterisk in there
> > would solve one problem. It seems that I could set up a dial plan
> > so that if I dial 9 it would use the caller ID of one company, dial
> > 8 to use the caller ID of another, etc. On the user side, they
> > would have to dial 9 twice to place an outgoing call (since the
> > Legend requires a 9 for an outside line), but I think I could also
> > set the dialplan up so that if the number dialed is a standard
> > number, it would just use a generic caller ID number.
>
> Right but the legend also provides UDP that will allow you to specify
> a range for extensions to be passed back and forth... users that dial
> 9 and get an outside trunk will be able to match with your dialplan
>
> [from-merlin]
> exten => 9NXXXXXX,1,Dial(ZAP/g1/${EXTEN:-1})  ; where group=1 is your
> telco trunk
> exten => 4001,1,Dial(SIP/4001)
>
>
>
> >
> > I guess I'm still confused as whether Asterisk will pass the DID
> > information onto the Legend. If someone could point me in a
> > direction regarding this, I'd appreciate it. I haven't found
> > anything, which makes me worried this isn't possible (whether
> > because of technology or Asterisk).
>
>
> All you need to know is the digits that are being passed and how they
> are mapped in the legend... asterisk can mimic this however you want...
>
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