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The Sipgate service is free to set up with a UK DDI. Our Asterisk SIP appliance is installed on a basic Atom processor-based PC. On the Shoretel side, just set a DNIS entry on the tie trunk for the number to point at whatever extension you like. The destination of the DDI will be the tie trunk between the two systems: Just create an Inbound route on Sipgate trunk on the Asterisk side for the DDI in question. If there is a requirement to route a DDI call through to a Shoretel user, then that is easy too.

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A user on the Shoretel can now not only dial users on the Asterisk by their extension number but also dial a 9+ full CLI across to the Asterisk and out of the Sipgate trunk.

Now go back to the Asterisk server and verify the connectivity to the Shoretel is established: The Switch is the Shoregear switch hosting the trunks. The IP address/FQDN is the static IP address of the Asterisk server. We create 2 individual trunks within the trunk group, of type SIP. Asterisk extensions can be dialled without including the вЂ9вЂ™ because Off-System extensions have been configured on the trunk group.

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We use the access code of вЂ9вЂ™ to place calls over the trunk. The trunk will register on the Asterisk side without any authentication information set. The profile is вЂDefault Tie TrunkвЂ™ with no amendments made.Дigest authentication isnвЂ™t required here and as such, the drop-down is set to вЂNoneвЂ™. We set up a SIP trunk group called Shoretel-Asterisk. We create an outbound route which sends 1xx dialled numbers across to the Shoretel: The hostВ is the IP address of the Shoretel switch where the SIP trunks are setup Note the context=from-internalВ вЂ“ This is important for Asterisk to treat dialled digits coming across the trunk from Shoretel as digits dialled internally. On the Asterisk side, we create a SIP trunk with 2 channels to the Shoretel. The basic configuration goes something like thisвЂ¦ Our Shoretel is using extensions in the 1xx range, whilst the Asterisk is using 2xx. WeвЂ™ll assume you are familiar with setting up SIP trunking with Asterisk and an ITSP and focus on the interoperability between Shoretel and Asterisk.

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It takes only a few minutes to get the trunk registration live on the Asterisk server. A feature-rich ITSP with free signup, multiple concurrent calls and a UK DDI included.

For this experiment, we decided to use Sipgate. There is a whole host of SIP providers that are capable of working with Asterisk. We donвЂ™t currently have an additional SBC for use with the test lab, but fortunately, Asterisk is quite happy to be configured with an internal IP address, and present a public IP address to the ITSP, taking care of any NAT headaches. The SBC also provides interoperability with the various ITSPs. ITSPs expect to see traffic coming from a public IP address. The reason for this is that the Shoretel trunking hardware sits inside the private local area network, itвЂ™s not public-facing. Also, you cannot just connect a SIP trunk group directly to an ITSP, a session border controller is pretty much a necessity (and an expensive one at that). Traditionally, Shoretel only supports a list of approved ITSPs. We could then send a call from Shoretel through Asterisk and out to the PSTN. The idea being we would link the Shoretel to the Asterisk via SIP tie trunks, then build separate trunks on the Asterisk registered as SIP peers to an ITSP. The lab test system is isolated from our production system and without some complicated network configurations, we canвЂ™t make use of our production BRI or SIP trunking.ДЄs a solution to this, we decided to spin up an AsteriskВ server to see if we could make use of it as a SIP gateway. The one key element missing from the lab Shoretel was external trunking. This provides a useful platform for trialling new configurations and appliance deployments before we apply them to live customer environments.

We have a full Shoretel Connect Onsite system here in our test lab. Lee as extensive experience in the ShoreTel universe and thrives inВ finding a solution.

Shoretel trunk test tool how to#

Continuing our series of blogs written by theВ team of engineers at Blackstar, we have our Solutions Implementation Engineer, Lee Harding,В covering how to link ShoreTel Connect and Asterisk.