BT Versatility and Asterisk

[johnnyd]

Hi

Anyone got an Asterisk box working with the Versatility system, if so, i am very interested, I need more voip entensions?

JohnnyD

[Tracey]

Hi JohnnyD,

Asterick has not been tested and is not supported by BT Versatility.

The maximum number of V-ip extensions that can be connected to a BT Versatility is 12 assuming that there are no voip lines connected.

Hope this is of help

Tracey

[johnnyd]

Hi Tracy

So are you saying I can add voip lines to the system and have more extensions?

Best Regards

John Devine

[Tracey]

Hi JohnnyD,

No, there are 12 endpoints on the system. You could have 2 Voip lines and 10 V-ip extensions or 12 V-ip extensions.

Hope this is of help

Tracey

BT Forum Moderator.

[Fiona]

Hi

To clarify the answers on this post, BT only support the use of BT Business Broadband Voice Trunks on the BTV BBM or BBM+ for IP Trunks and you can currently only have 2 of these.

Kind Regards

Fiona

BT Business Forum Moderator

[burnsies02]

Hi, I have connected one of my Versatility systems to an Asterisk (Trixbox). If you have the Broadband plus module, you can configure up to IP 12 trunks from one or more Asterisks. However, you can't connect 3rd party IP terminals back to the Versatility with BT firmware loaded.

You will need to get around the SIP configuration restrictions on older versions of firmware, which is quite easy to do through a regular browser when setting up the server details (as you probably know, by default it will default to BT's gateway). Let me know if you want the short-cut for this.

I have not saturated a system yet to see if all 12 trunks will work reliably at the same time, but hope to do so in the next couple of weeks when I have chance to set up a test environment and borrow 12 willing volunteers! Hopefully BT have already tested throughput before releasing the module, but given the number of bugs, you never know!

On another point, however, if you do have an Asterisk switch, do you really need a Versatility, or are you just using one as your gateway?

Dave

[johnnyd]

Hi Dave

thanks for the reply, what I would like to do is extend our system by adding more extensions via an ip trunk to * is this possible, and would the * extensions be able to dial versatility extensions? I have the newer firmware in the BB+ module so can see the sip info to change, would you mind letting me have your iax conf info from * to see the setup ? 

Best regards

JD

[burnsies02]

Hi JD

I'm connecting into a TrixBox, which is an re-packaged bundle around the aSterisk, the IAX settings are for trunk routing from the trix, so I don't think they will help you much.

Dialling Versatility extensions from the Trix side should be do-able if they have DDI's which are also configured in the Trix, as it will route locally to your Versatility. Clearly in this model, your Trix extensions will not behave as Versatility extensions, (voicemail etc) as they are on a different switch. However, it should work okay and your calling costs will remain low.

Dave

[joker]

Hi Dave,

I know this is a really old post but I was wondering if you could shed anymore light on the way you have integrated the Versatility system with the Asterisk one?  How does yours work and why did you do it?

JD did you get this working?  If so perhaps you could also guide me?

Many thanks,

Tim

[skipzoid]

Hello JD

i knowmthis is an old post, but i hope it reaches you, or somone else thatncan help.

im looking formthe latest BBM firmware. i believe it ismversion 189 ?

cheers,