With Asterisk you can use Analog lines (PSTN) , Digital lines (PRI), or Internet Telephone Service Providers (ITSP) such as Broadvoice, Teliax, IAX.cc, and many more.
Kerry Garrison Director of Technical Services Tech Data Pros - Orange County's Mobile IT Service Provider (949) 502-7819 x200 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.techdatapros.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Charles Marcus > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:38 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dumb question - reaching the PSTN > > Hi everyone, > > I am fairly new to the idea of VoIP, although I've been > reading about it off and on for the last few years. Now it is > starting to look mature enough to consider implementing it, > but there is one thing that I haven't been able to get a > clear answer on... > > With Vonage, you are using the Vonage network - it is their > responsibility to route your call to the endpoint, which is > more than likely on the old fashined PSTN. > > If I install Asterisk, how do my calls actually get > completed? How do they get 'bridged' over to the PSTN? > > I attended a Seminar today hosted by Dynasis, and one of the > issues was VoIP. ShoreTel was there, and the said I had to > have phone lines, whether they were POTS lines, chennels from > a T-1, whatever, we still had to have phone lines. > > Now I'm confused. > > If I implement an Asterisk based system (yes, I'd be paying a > consultant to help), will I still have to maintain phone > lines and pay full price for Long Distance? > > Simple pointers to White Papers on this issue will be sufficient. > > Many thanks, > > -- > > Best regards, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users