Asterisk and Patton How to

From AstBillWiki

Asterisk and the Patton Range of BRI/PRI ISDN produkts work exelent together.

The Patton SN4960 is also a very cost efficient alternative to Cisco when it comes to Terminating calls in the PSTN.

This is how to configure Patton Smartnode to talk to Asterisk.

context cs switch

interface sip IF_SIP
  bind gateway GW_SIP
  service default
  route call dest-interface PSTN
  remote-party-id calling-party
  address-translation outgoing-call from-header user-part fix 71000 host-part call


gateway sip GW_SIP
  bind interface eth0 router

  service default
    domain sipit.astbill.com
    default-server sipit.astbill.com loose-router
    registration-lifetime 90
    registrar sipit.astbill.com
    user 71000 password 123456

gateway sip GW_SIP
  no shutdown

Difference between Asterisk and Patton/Cisco Gateway

The difference between Asterisk with T1/E1/PRI card and Patton/Cisco Gateway is not explained in a few lines. Below is a few points from seen from my experience. Surely others will have a different opinion.

   * I use both solutions in several Telecoms in Norway and UK.
   * Digiums T1/E1/PRI card normally cost much less than a dedicated Gateway.
   * Asterisk and T1/E1/PRI card can not reliable handle FAX and T.38 (This can be disputed)
   * Asterisk and T1/E1/PRI card can not reliable handle modem traffic over IP. (This can be disputed) Yes some people still use modems. :-)
   * Patton and Cisco can be hard to setup and configure if you don't know it.
   * The Linux part of Asterisk is much harder to configure with Digiums T1/E1/PRI card than just as stand alone Asterisk.
   * Asterisk and T1/E1/PRI card can be a very reliable efax gateway providing FAX from PSTN to pdf/tiff files.
   * With Patton and Cisco you need a Radius server like http://www.freeradius.org/ for your CDR generation.
   * Asterisk have excellent CDR generation tools.
   * Patton and Cisco is not a SIP registration server so you still need Asterisk or SER -Sip Express Router.

So it depends on your setup. If you don't need Fax from ATA to PSTN you may be are better off using Asterisk only. If you need Fax you may need Patton and Cisco.

Best Regards

Are Casilla