25th November 2008, 10:45 am
*** UPDATE 23/6/09 – While callwithus still have a UK sip server you should use the server ‘sip.callwithus.com’ in your configuration settings. Check the callwithus website for details.
If you’re based in the UK or Europe and looking for a cheap ITSP (VIOP provider) it might be worth looking at CallWithUS as they’ve recently launched a UK based SIP server.
As well as the US based servers sip.callwithus.com, east.callwithus.com and west.callwithus.com you can now use uk.callwithus.com. I now get sub 6ms pings from my Asterisk server in BlueSquare to the CallWithUs server.
I’ve been using CallWithUs for a while now and they provide very competitively priced DIDs and termination rates.
15th November 2008, 02:53 pm
Sysadminman is now offering UK based Virtual Private Servers running Trixbox and Elastix.
Please see here for details – http://sysadminman.net/uk-voip-vps.html
14th November 2008, 10:57 am
Here is my CallCentric configuration for FreePBX.
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Trunk Name: CallCentric
PEER Details:
username=1777XXXXXXX
type=peer
secret=PASSWORD
qualify=yes
nat=no
insecure=very
host=callcentric.com
fromuser=1777XXXXXXX
fromdomain=callcentric.com
dtmfmode=rfc2833
disallow=all
context=custom-get-did-from-sip
canreinvite=yes
allow=ulaw
Register String:
1777XXXXXXX:PASSWORD@callcentric.com/1777XXXXXXX
Please note: the above number starting 1777 is your account number and not you DID number
You also need to add 2 lines to one of the configuration files to correctly extract the DID number from incoming calls.
Edit /etc/asterisk/extensions_custom.conf
Add the following lines
[custom-get-did-from-sip]
exten => _.,1,Goto(from-trunk,${CUT(CUT(SIP_HEADER(To),@,1),:,2)},1)
Then restart Asterisk
You should now be able to create Inbound Routes based on you CallCentric DID numbers
9th November 2008, 07:48 pm
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