PSTN simulator

[DRAGI RADOVANOVIC]

Hi!

I wonder if someone could tell me where I could get a PSTN simulator that I would use to connect to a VWIC on a voice gateway to hand off fxo trunks, a fractional T1 (voice and data) or similar? I would like to be able to pick up an analog phone connected to either the simulator or a voice gateway, go through the simulator and the connected VG and establish a call with an IP phone.

Regards,

Dragi

[pacameron]

Use another IOS router with a T1/E1 voice card and a FXS voice card. Something like a NM-HD-2VE or NM-HDV2 would works as they have slots for digital or analogue ports.

You set up the signaling on the T1/E1 port to match what you are using on your existing voice gateway, then add POTS dial peers to route the calls to the relevant vocie ports. Here is a basic example -

controller e1 1/0

pri-group timeslots 1-31

interface serial 1/0:15

isdn incoming-voice voice

isdn protocol-emaulate network

voice-port 1/0:15

!

voice-port 1/1/0

description - 2 port FXS card

!

voice-port 1/1/1

description - 2 port FXS card

!

dial-peer voice 1 pots

incoming called-number .

port 1/0:15

direct-inward-dial

!

dial-peer voice 2 pots

destination-pattern 8446....

port 1/0:15

forward-digits all

!

dial-peer voice 3 pots

destination-pattern 55551000

port 1/1/0

!

dial-peer voice 4 pots

destination-pattern 55551001

port 1/1/1/

!

This is for an E1, but same thing applies for T1, change the signaling to suit your needs

[a.gooding]

for in house testing i use a product call TELTONE which is a 4 port telephone line simulator..