[GRLUG] VOIP "Dialtone"

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:51 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> At 02:35 PM 4/28/2010, you wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 2:54 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> > At 01:38 PM 4/28/2010, you wrote:
>> > Ahh, .. how do 'incoming copper lines over a T1' relate to VOIP
>> > equipment like Polycom? Am I missing something?
>>
>>but the "incoming lines over a
>>T1" likely refers to the individual 64kbps channels on a PRI.
>
> That's what I would have thought, .. hence my confusion - what does
> it have to do with VOIP? A VOIP call is carried in IP traffic, .. so
> it could not use a 64Kbps dedicated channel??

It's just another voice carrier that you can interface with Asterisk
with the appropriate equipment. Once it's into Asterisk, it can go out
any other voice carrier you have the equipment for, including SIP or
IAX on an IP network.

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