[asterisk-users] Asterisk as a E1/T1 FXO ?

[A J Stiles]

On Monday 24 September 2012, hbk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody here have experience using Asterisk as an FXO to emulate a
> E1/T1/PRI line for test purpose?
> 
> Gateway or PCI card?

Yes, we use a TE410P to connect to an E1  (ISDN-30)  line,  and also to an 
Eicon Diva card  (which itself is meant to connect to an E1)  in a server 
running Hylafax.  It all works beautifully, with outgoing faxes being routed 
over the phone network and incoming calls on the fax number directed to the 
server.

You just need to specify

signalling = pri_net

and a suitable default context in the appropriate span in your 
chan_dahdi.conf.  (You might want to use NoOp(${EXTEN}) in your first iteration 
of this default context, just to see exactly how the called number is getting 
sent through from the CPE.)

(pri_cpe is Customer Premises Equipment -- i.e., something such as you would 
plug into the box provided by your telco; pri_net is NETwork -- i.e., a box 
such as a telco might provide.)

-- 
AJS

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