I'm looking for any and all knowledge on how to tie an old option 81 to an asterisk box in the configuration (for now) of the PSTN --->
Nortel ---> Asterisk. We have 4 E&M Trunks (Supertrunks as bell calls them) the basic idea being all 24 channels are used for voice and no D- Chan because of some crappy planning when the system was originally licensed... That said I need to figure out a way to send certain DID's to my asterisk box and also be able to set up a route back out of asterisk through the nortel to the pstn... I have come up with several options involving line side t1 cards and some using PRI cards etc (both of which I have) but nothing that can tell me how to set it up when I don't have D-ch available or qsig etc... I think we're on Release 23.The asterisk side I can handle it's the nortel side I'm fuzzy on. I have been running this opt 81 for several years and know my way around it pretty well but not well enough to start messing with that stuff blind on a production system... Any help would be greatly appreciated
-Drew