[asterisk-users] is dundi worth pursuing in this situation?

[Bruce Reeves]

Erik,

Your setup is very similar to one of my own, and I started of manually
configuring it, creating IAX connections for each site and then using dial
plan to route the call. When I looked at Dundi and finally got it working, I
have one IAX connection for all sites and the connections are dynamically
created. My dial plan also got simpler, as I add sites I add them to Dundi
and the dial plan routes all unmatched extensions to Dundi for lookup. For
me dundi has reduced the complexity of my dial plan and I have a pair of
servers that query everybody and the that pair listed at my remote sites. I
am not using it for least cost routing, yet, but so far it has made things a
little easier. You might take a look at the article on txaug.net, under
hubguru's articles, it is from JR's Astricon 2006 session.

On 5/1/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> At work, I have 4 branch offices at which I've deployed asterisk.
> Call termination/origination at each branch office is handled either
> through a frac PRI or 3rd party SIP provider.  Soon, I'll be replacing
> the legacy PBX at our HQ with asterisk.
>
> Each branch office has between 3 and 20 employees, each with their own
> extension and DID, and at headquarters, we have about 70 people, again
> each with their own extensions and DID.
>
> Handling local and LD calls from all the offices isn't a big deal -
> just normal call routing for that.  My main question is what to do
> with calls between the offices.  Each branch is connected back to HQ
> with a persistant VPN tunnel - I've tested IAX2 traffic over these
> tunnels before, and things work great.  Since this works fairly well,
> I envision using IAX trunks for all intra-office calls.  So - in this
> situation, would it be easier to just manage the office dialplan(s)
> and call routing manually, or would it be worth it to set up dundi for
> extension discovery?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Erik Anderson
> http://andersonfam.org
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Bruce Reeves
Nortex Networks
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