[Serusers] Asterisk + SER

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That depends a lot on your particular setup, Nick.  If you're doing a pre-pay
by the minute scheme, there's no way for SER to cut off a call when someone
runs out of minutes, so you'd want to forward calls through something like
Asterisk B2BUA. If you're doing a monthly scheme, you can set flags based on
database values and SER is perfectly capable of shunting the calls to a PSTN
provider. 

Some people will also use Asterisk to transcode (convert from one codec to
another) from a common VoIP codec to one that their PSTN gateway understands. 

It can be done a lot of different ways. :)

N.


On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:24:17 +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote
> When using Asterisk and SER together, should SER place calls to the 
> PSTN, and Asterisk only deal with "special features" such as 
> voicemail, queues, autoattendants, etc? Or should SER be used ONLY 
> as a proxy/registrar, and all calls be routed to Asterisk so that 
> Asterisk places the calls to the PSTN?
> 
> Cheers!
> -- Nick
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