Off Topic - VOIP/SIP gateway

[James Marcinek]

A phone fairy (telecom guy) pointed me in this direction:

http://www.asterisk.org/

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> This isn't directly related to Fedora, but we have clients running 
> Fedora servers and this has come up as a topic of conversation at 
> several meetings.
> 
> We've pushed Linux so hard at our client sites that those who've 
> switched from NetWare and Windows to Linux server environments are now 
> asking us to help them get rid of their PSTN phone systems in favor of 
> VOIP/SIP replacements. They can plainly see that our Linux 
> recommendations have paid off and now want us to help them migrate their 
> voice phone systems to a more modern platform.
> 
> BTW - Those on this list that are squeamish about Fedora being a Linux 
> test bed and aren't implementing Fedora Core 2 Servers are missing out 
> on a great platform. With a prudent choice of hardware and proper 
> implementation, Fedora Core 2 has absolutely nothing to apologize for. 
> All our internal servers are FC2 and they all run like a Swiss watch.
> 
> We're looking for a Linux based VOIP/SIP gateway that can access the 
> PSTN phone network. Specifically, we'd like a recommendation from anyone 
> that's implemented a mechanism that allows a business to run their 
> internal phones over their TCP/IP network (LAN or WAN), and then hit a 
> gateway to allow them to also make calls to standard PSTN phone numbers. 
> Obviously, this involves some hardware to convert TCP/IP traffic to 
> POTS/T1 lines.
> 
> We're open to recommendations for any hardware that provides such 
> capabilities as well as any services that we can contract with to 
> provide that capability. Doing it without a service provider like 
> Vonage, Avaya, Packet8, etc is preferable for our larger clients, but 
> we'd like to hear about all the options so that even a Mom & Pop site 
> can take advantage of the technology.
> 
> Please - I can Google with the best of them, so no recommendations that 
> haven't been implemented. I'm after what is up and running somewhere, 
> not marketing BS.
> 
> As an example, a business owner in Dallas places a call to a department 
> head at their New York branch office via their TCP/IP network 
> (Internet/VPN), and then minutes later he/she calls Mom in Oshkosh and 
> all she has is an old rotary dial phone. The solution should make both 
> of these calls just as easy to make.
> 
> We need recommendations for solutions that allows a site to utilize VOIP 
> for all their internal voice traffic and then use X number of PSTN phone 
> lines to make calls to their clients, friends, etc that are still using 
> standard phone equipment, or pass that traffic to a service that can hit 
> the PSTN. Things like VOIP enables handsets, gateway boards, Windows & 
> Linux clients that can "pop" call information when a call is initiated 
> or received, etc are all of interest.
> 
> TIA
> 
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James Marcinek

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