Re: Asterisk application

Sorry!

Too much computer.

"Hear a phone dial as normal..."

Her Majesty will be most despondent with my oratory effort.

RF.




On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:16 +0800, Richard Ford wrote:

> I have a cool USB device I could show you guys at some stage.
> 
> Trade secret right now.  But basically, plug a phone line in one side
> and the usb in the other.
> 
> Pick up the phone, here a phone dial as normal.  This is how VoIP
> =has= to be......  if I am allowed to demo - I will.  
> 
> 
> But for SIP - don't you need a static IP to be able to dial using an
> IP # and not a normal phone number?
> 
> 
> RF.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:03 +0800, Colin Charles wrote: 
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 01:09 +0100, Matteo Paiato wrote:
> > 
> > > two offices, one in italy and one in China. every workstation in Italy 
> > > has a Softphone and an Extension number, the same for each workstation 
> > > in the chinese office.
> > 
> > Seems like a fair scenario
> > 
> > > At this point is it possible to call from a workstation in China a 
> > > workstation in Italy just dialing with the soft phone the extension 
> > 
> > Yes, using SIP, you can just dial an extension number and have it all
> > work. Your asterisk server needs to sit on a publically accessible IP,
> > and not behind the firewall in either your China or Italy offices
> > 
> > > number? I'm not interested in making phone calls to external phone 
> > > numbers, just a way to let colleagues of the two offices talk at no 
> > > cost.
> > 
> > If you want local phone calls to POTS systems, you need local
> > termination
> > 
> > > How many asterisk servers do I need, one for each office or only one?
> > 
> > For your current implementation, only one, behind a fast Internet link,
> > would suffice. Its relatively trivial to setup as well, because you
> > don't have to fiddle with any hardware at all. Just the software, and of
> > course, have a working soundcard (that does dsp) - all this, fairly
> > common on any Linux system
> > 
> > If you wanted more features, then one at each office might be better
> 
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