Hello Rainer,

I am curious about your implementation. Doesn't SER duplicate functionality that Asterisk has? Why run both? Are you running both applications on one box? I don't know a lot about Asterisk? What functions is each app doing? I know Asterisk can interface with the PSTN hardware and has IVR functionality and auto attendant.

I'm in the middle of trying to decide how to conifigure PBX functionality at my company so I'm very interested in how others have succesfully implemented this.

Thanks, G.

Rainer Jochem rainer@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de wrote:

1 - Can anyone recommend a SIP to PSTN Gateway? (I'd like to connect using a T1.) Preferably Freeware on Linux. Any comments on Asterisk? I came across it, but have not really looked into it yet.

We use asterisk together with ser here and it works fine. Also the T1/E1 cards for asterisk from digium are very inexpensive. (Of course you can use any other PRI hardware supported by linux too)

It's quite easy to use and quite powerful as a PBX.

Have a look at it

Rainer