[asterisk-users] What do I need to connect landline calls without telephony hardware?

[don rhummy]

I'm sorry, I think I'm not being clear.

I want to know, for asterisk to work at all (i.e. for it to be able to connect calls to landlines, cell phones, make outgoing calls) do I need anything beyond a server and internet connection? Do I need a "gateway" of some sort? Do i need to either have a piece of hardware that connects to a phone line or pay a company to let me route through them?

I just don't think i can put asterisk on a server and suddenly make outgoing calls to landlines, right?


--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Matt Riddell <lists at venturevoip.com> wrote:

> From: Matt Riddell <lists at venturevoip.com>
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] What do I need to connect landline calls without telephony hardware?
> To: donrhummy at yahoo.com
> Cc: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 7:20 PM
> On 30/04/2009 11:00 a.m., don rhummy wrote:
> > 
> > Um, no... I want to implement it myself. My question
> is with regard to asterisk, and getting it top actually make
> calls, etc, what do i need to make those outgoing and
> connecting calls with asterisk?
> 
> Did you go to the link I sent you?
> 
> It was to a page of ways to do it.
> 
> One of the links is:
> 
> http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_9971.html
> 
> Basically you'll need to make a php page that either
> connects to the Asterisk Manager, or creates a .call file
> and moves it to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing
> 
> -- Kind Regards,
> 
> Matt Riddell
> Director
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