Setup asterisk to work with vonage

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Hello Everyone,

I just got vonage came over from broadvoice and I was using asterisk@home server and I was easily able to configure incoming and outgoing calls but since I moved to vonage not sure on to configure my asterisk box to point to the linksys router. Does anyone have sample configuration plus setup for cisco ata adapter to use my analog phones or maybe config for ip phones because I might use couple cisco ip phones from work? If anyone can help I would appreciate it.

Brian

Posts: 230 · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject:

I have a similar setup and unfortunately with vonage you cant do IP only communications unless you opted for the soft phone account as well. What you need is a single-span FXO card like this one. and then plug in the Vonage adapter into it.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Ok so in my asterisk box I have Digium Wildcard X100P OEM FXO PCI Card so setup is like this

switch---->asterisk box----->linksys vonage router---->ip phone or ata adapter ? Plus do you have config for asterisk@home to add a truck to point to vonage?

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

I think you mean switch---->linksys adapter----->asterisk box----->ip phone/analog ata adapter.

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:49 am Post subject:

Just add a Zap Trunk in AMP. What version of Asterisk@home are you using?

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

I think its version 0.9

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Using the AMP webbased config when I add zap truck what do I put in for my Outgoing dial rules?, under outgoing settings zap identifier (truck name): g0. I guess I don't need any incoming rules right? This is just little bit different my sip configuration plus they had lot of online

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 10:29 am Post subject:

Try and set it as the default route or add a prefix like 9 to dial that trunk right in AMP.

Posts: 16 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: May 20, 2005 Posts: 16

Maybe this is stupid question how does the asterisk box know to route to the linksys router? Just when I was using broadvoice there was lot of docs on how to configure asterisk box and that was standalone. Why did I switch is working fine but problem was with broadvoice there service starting getting bad and they didn't have 911 yet.

Posts: 230 · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 11:54 am Post subject:

Its based on the trunk you have setup. If you set it up to be default then asterisk will go out the Zap channel to the Vonage ata and make the call. If you setup a prefix like 9 then you would dial 9 and then your number. You are setting this up to act as if the vonage line is a POTS line and not a direct sip connection like you had with BroadVoice.