[VoIP] ATAs and Gateways

[John R. Covert]

>The dialplan ... uses the standard Cisco IOS syntax.

This is what I have in my Cisco ATA 186s:

11|2.|3[0_46_9]|5.|6.|7.|1.r9|001.r9|*St4-|##|#St4-|411|811|911|91.r9|80111.r9|818.r8|82431.r9|82581.r6|351.r6|978.r6|95.|99|0>#t811.rat4-|^1t4>#.-

That makes 11, 2x, 3x (except 35x), 5x, 6x, and 7x complete immediately,
1+10d complete immediately, and so on.

> Are [3-way, call waiting, and transfer] functions of the ATA?

Yes.  Asterisk is not involved (other than standard support already
built in).  Flash for 3-way and CW, Flash, #90 ... # for transfer.

(There's also Asterisk transfer, if enabled, with Asterisk listening
for "#", which is not a function of the ATA.)

Argh.  Can't decide.  I think its size and the fact that I really
don't need it, and I don't yet have a rack to mount it in make me
decide not to buy.  If that T1 port could only do BRI U.S. ISDN.
(As I mentioned earlier, there is currently no way to do U.S. ISDN
on Asterisk.  Although there's lots of compatible hardware, there's
no compatible software.)

/john