<div class="gmail_quote"><snip><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Audiocodes supports SRST on their mediapack analog gateways.</span></blockquote>
<div><br>This might be a viable option. I haven't used any Audiocodes devices before. Are people pleased with them?<br> <br></div><snip><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Deploy a lot of small asterisk based appliances...<br><br>
This way you can completely decentralise your setup and give each
office it's own autonomous system, only needing the WAN links for
inter-site calls (and maybe your backhaul to the PSTN)<br></blockquote><div><br>We do not want to decentralise our configuration. The whole point of pulling all of these sites together was to centralise management. We also have a lot of users that move to a different site every year and keep their DID as long as they are within the same county. We simply need some way to provide basic call management for local 911 access in the case of WAN failure. Our Cisco devices do this for any phone using SCCP. If you want to buy an additional license you can have SIP too...<br>
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<font color="#888888"><br></font><snip><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>What happens for IT when WAN fails ?<br>
Are people still able to work or not ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I work in K-12 education, so while our users will complain that they don't have internet/email/etc, they continue to work with or without the WAN connection. Even if normal phone service is not available, we HAVE to provide 911 access.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>If they are, then it should be possible to use current routers (if they have such POTS interfaces) as Media gateways and have a local resource to act as a backup Asterisk server.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>I am trying to avoid adding additional servers at this small sites. Some sites are nothing more than a portable with Metro Ethernet connection and a fan-less router and switch.<br> </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>If they are not, having IT and Telephony to share the same backup WAN is advisable.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Backup WAN links... I wish!<br><br>Thanks for the input.<br><br>-Jonathan<br></div></div>