Erik,<br><br>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 <a href="http://txaug.net">txaug.net</a>, under hubguru's articles, it is from JR's Astricon 2006 session.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Erik Anderson</b> <<a href="mailto:erikerik@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">erikerik@gmail.com
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At work, I have 4 branch offices at which I've deployed asterisk.<br>Call termination/origination at each branch office is handled either<br>through a frac PRI or 3rd party SIP provider. Soon, I'll be replacing<br>
the legacy PBX at our HQ with asterisk.<br><br>Each branch office has between 3 and 20 employees, each with their own<br>extension and DID, and at headquarters, we have about 70 people, again<br>each with their own extensions and DID.
<br><br>Handling local and LD calls from all the offices isn't a big deal -<br>just normal call routing for that. My main question is what to do<br>with calls between the offices. Each branch is connected back to HQ
<br>with a persistant VPN tunnel - I've tested IAX2 traffic over these<br>tunnels before, and things work great. Since this works fairly well,<br>I envision using IAX trunks for all intra-office calls. So - in this
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situation, would it be easier to just manage the office dialplan(s)<br>and call routing manually, or would it be worth it to set up dundi for<br>extension discovery?<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>--<br>Erik Anderson<br><a href="http://andersonfam.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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