Multiple Phone lines on single ATA ?

If you put Asterisk between the ATA and your inbound SIP providers (you can have as many SIP providers as you like) then you can alter the caller ID to tell you which virtual line the call came in on.

miguel

If you have an ATA to connect your phones to, and will be receiving calls over the internet via SIP, then you don't need any other hardware.

miguel

I would like to try setting such a system up being a newbie... What minimum PCI hardware do I need to purchase for this (assuming I have PC and 100mbit ethernet card, and Linux)?

How many lines do you need..? The Sipura SPA-2000 has two phone ports - see

Not sure what you mean by which number is being called, can't you tell by which phone is ringing..?!

Ivor

I have to say, this is definitely one of the nicer aspects of running asterisk. I wonder which other of the sip daemons can do this trick. After spending a day or two reading about SER I still couldn't see a way to do it.

Anyone know of another sip daemon that can dispatch calls to various sip providers?

-wolfgang

I believe that there are even people that have ported a stripped down asterisk to the Linksys wrt-54g (a $60 home wifi "router"). If you wanted a totally quiet, low power asterisk and had a bit of time to tinker, this might be the way to go. Even my lowest power, oldest x86 computer, a ppro-150 takes 28 watts when just sitting there.

-wolfgang

Draytek 2600V and Zyxel 2602 HW/L routers have two built in VoIP ports, but can be set up to operate both from one phone. The HWL version will let you access the POTS line too.he Draytek only allows for one VoIP registrar at the moment, but that should be addressed soon with firmware update. Regards, Martin

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OR

How about joining your VOIP port and the plain old (PSTN) telephone jack into a single handset?

OR

USE a CLT to join a card card acceptor and your single line telephone as well!

OR

see if anybody picks-up, on another line trunk, after you are already in a telco call???

THEN...........................................

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That's right, and it isn't even stripped too much: I'm running one at home and I'm very happy with it. The main limitation is the lack of a hardware FPU, which makes some codecs that rely upon floating-point based implementations (LPC10, iLBC, Speex) unusable if not in pass-through mode. Otherwise, the CPU appears about as powerful as a

Enzo