[PhoneBoy]

Just got blind CCed on an email from Sipura.

Well, we have listened to the community requests.
We have planned in the next release to allow you to specify a user-id to be used in the From and Contact headers of outbound SIP messages. Hopefully this will greatly increases the call success rate through some service providers.

Beware that there might still service providers that would not allow you to call through them despite this additional change. But this is the best we can do for now. Again we want to emphasize that Gw1-Gw4 are targetted towards other gateway devices such as SPA3000.

The firmware release will be posted some time this week.

[Sipura_Technology]

The new firmware can now be downloaded from
http://www.sipura.com/Documents/spa3k-2.0.11g.zip

[PhoneBoy]

The way you specify the username to use in the appropriate SIP headers is in the Gateway X field:

username@sipproxy

This is in addtion to specifying the username in the GWX User ID field.

I tested this with the following providers and it appears to work pretty good:

VoicePulse Open Access
BroadVoice
Stanaphone
iConnectHere

This should be the answer to many people prayers. The SPA3000 Configuration Wizard on Voxilla will be updated to take this new configuration option into account.

[ichilton]

Hi,

That's good news!

Will providers setup in the gateway fields accept incomming calls, or just outgoing from a dial plan?

Now they've fixed this, I wonder if Sipura would be willing to fix the "SPA3000 answers the 3000 call before forwarding" issue to make it better to use with Asterisk

There are reports this is possible but Caller-ID isn't passed through - see the post from John here: http://voip-forum.tmcnet.com/voip-fo...707&PN=1&TPN=1

--ian

[PhoneBoy]

Outgoing calls only on the gateway providers, which is as it was designed.

[ichilton]

Hi,

That's what I thought.

One other question though - how do the gwX mappings work in the dial string?

gw0 = pstn line
gw1 = line 1 provider

So what's Gateway 1? - gw2? or is gw2 Gateway 2?


Thanks

--ian

[mberlant]

Ian,

I can answer two of your points. First, if you want to receive incoming calls on your gwX numbers on your SPA3000, you may be able to Call Forward them into your Line 1 URI or telephone number, whichever is less expensive or possible.

As far as the SPA3000 initiating the VoIP portion of the call prior to answering the PSTN portion, that's not likely to ever happen, notwithstanding what John Covert said. As he discovered, you can stretch some timeouts and use some forwarding tricks to get partway there, but you don't have control over enough pieces of the puzzle. This is because the SPA is a completely autonomous device that you have configured to interwork with your Asterisk and the function you are looking for requires a device that is actually slaved to the Asterisk. For that you'll need to get either a Digium FXO card or a suitable voice modem that you can install in your Asterisk box and set up to do just what you wish.

By the way, that thread on tmcnet is a great find.

Michael

[PhoneBoy]

If you do not specify a gateway, it will use the Line 1 provider. gw1 is Gateway 1, gw2 is Gateway 2, etc.

[ichilton]

mberlant - ok, I see what you're saying but it would be nice to get an official "no this is not possible" from Sipura

phoneboy - So normally you would configure the line 1 provider and Gateway 1 with the same settings? - the line 1 provider for incomming and the Gateway 1 to use in a dialplan, even though they are the same provider?

Thanks

--ian

[PhoneBoy]

No, you normally wouldn't do that. There's no point to that. You might configure the same provider in Gateway 1 and the PSTN SIP Settings, though.