After reading some more about Zaptel and its purpose in the Asterisk system (and given the error I mentioned when trying to compile it yesterday) I don't think it is needed for a pure VoIP system. From the book:
For the first few sections on FXO and FXS channels, we’ll assume that
you have a Digium TDM11B kit (which comes with one FXO and one FXS interface).
This will allow you to connect to an analog circuit (FXO) and to an analog telephone
(FXS). Note that this hardware interface isn’t necessary; if you want to build an IP-only configuration, you can skip to the section on configuring SIP.
I figure that if it ever gets to the point where this is important,
- We'll be working on our own box
- We'll get to choose the Linux distro to install on the box (CentOS would be nice, as there is a ton of documentation in the support archives for CentOS and not for much else)
- Analog connections might not be necessary in the first place
- Being on our own system opens up the possibility of installing AsteriskNOW, which provides a GUI and does the work for you (but requires installation from a CD)
For now I'm ignoring the Zaptel instructions, unless I'm missing something important as to if it's necessary or not?
On the cloud server (host), there won't be any additional hardware or access through anything other than an ip address. I was hoping that there was a hardware device that allowed for a analog phone connection with some sort of configurable network interface that could be pointed to the asterisk server. I have a dsl line in my office that I don't use the voice side.
ReplyDeleteLooking around at available hardware, 'adaptors' seem to be more for connecting an analog phone to a voip system, while 'gateway' seems to be the preferred term for connecting multiple analog lines to the voip server. See http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/
Nonetheless, there is a blur when it comes down to one phone jack devices. Didn't find exactly the price/feature point i was looking for.
The available linux distributions on rackspace are: Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Centos, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you think centos would be a better fit, then we can either 1) rebuild it now (don't think it matters for my MySQL work) or 2) get it working here first and then move it later
This might be in close to the price/feature point: http://www.digiumcards.com/digium_iaxy.html
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Test link to Google
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Not sure why they aren't clickable automatically, but I just dug through the preferences and didn't see a way to turn some sort of parser "on"