VoIP to gtalk (and back!)
In general - it has gone well. Switchvox is based on Asterisk - and there were some bugs that seemed to conflict with our PRI hardware. It's still not clear to me where the problem was. Brian @ Switchvox worked pretty hard to patch SV for us to bypass the problem once he isolated it. June's update, SV has been stable and we've been happy with it's maintainability and flexibility.
've wanted to be able to use it to connect with Skype and/or gtalk .. and yesterday I finally it working pretty well with gtalk - so thought I'd document it a bit here in case others want to do the same. It's certainly possible to do this in Asterisk as well - but it's likely that most Switchvox users are not so sophisticated as the traditional Asterisk or Trixbox users .. so here's the overview of how to do it in Switchvox. I may be adding SipBroker here unnecessarily - but I don't have Switchvox set up to accept SIP calls directly - so I like having Sipbroker in the middle to handle that for me and to simplify dialing - as you'll see below..
What you need:
- Switchvox.
- A (free) gtalk account.
- A (free) gtalk2voip account.
- A (free) sipbroker.com account.
Go get 'em now. I'll wait for you. On the gtalk2voip account - don't bother getting a "business" account. A personal one is fine.
At sipbroker - you need to set up your Switchvox with sipbroker as a provider. This will make it much easier for you to dial out to gtalk - and in from PSTN (regular) phones.
Written by Dal on January 1st, 1970 with
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