In article <13c3qpinfubl297@corp.supernews.com>,
Rob <nobody@this.place.invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
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>"Graham." <me@privacy.com> wrote in message
>news:f9smfl$fik$1@registered.motzarella.org...
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>> > Does anybody know if this 3CX software could be used to provide a[/color][/color]
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>> > service (on a personal and a few friends basis) to that provided by
>> > Voxalot?
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>> > I imagine it would need to be able to provide SIP registrar / redirect /
>> > and
>> > proxy server facilities to do as required above.
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>> > Rob[/color]
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>> Wouldn't Asterisk do all that?[/color]
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>I don't know. :-)
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>Doesn't Asterisk need to be installed on a Linux box?[/color]

3CX is a closed-source PBX system which runs under Windows. There is
a free version with user/community support (via forums) and a paid-for
version with (I guess) support from the company.

Asterisk is open-source which runs under Linux (and Solaris) Lots of
support from digium (the primary sponsors) and the communiuty via
forums/mailling lists, etc. as well as various people who'll sell
you support.
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>I was hoping to be able to set something reasonably simple up to enable a
>handful of friends/family in Australia and Sweden (I am in the UK) to be
>able to use multiple VoIP accounts which at present they cannot do as their
>equipment is only capable of handling a single SIP registrar. As I see it,
>if they were able to register their devices on my "service", then providing
>some sort of dial-plan were available to them via that "service", it should
>be possible to achieve the intended outcome.[/color]

Either 3CX or Asterisk ought to be able to do what you require - if you
run them on a suitable PC at home. You then create your own closed VoIP
system, and with Asterisk, you could certianly take their local SIP
providers details and register the * box with them, to allow them to
call-through to their own provider as well as calling the other local
users, although you'd need to be careful to not let other users use other
users SIP providers (and thus run up charges to the wrong person!) And
everyone would need to trust you with their SIP username & passwords
for their own providers - trust you to not abuse them and run up their
bills, etc.

Gordon