[Openh323gk-developer] Re: H323IP-IP

[Lance W. <l....@ra...>]

Hi Jan,

The implementation that I am hoping to create this software for is for our
educational video conferencing network. Due to the way we want to configure it,
our endpoints will be behind NAT'd firewalls and only addressable via the
gatekeeper. Rather than expect outside colleges/parties to register with our
gatekeeper etc, I would like for them to just dial one address, then be able to
choose a site using DTMF.

The goal for us is to be able to publish an IP address/URL on all the college
websites and stationary which is the same for all the colleges in the
consortium. (there are seven higher education institutions involved over 10
sites)

This would enable us to build a nice centralised feel to the H.323 network.

My thought is a piece of software that registers with the gatekeeper, it is able
to receive incoming calls from the public internet. It gives a nice greeting and
then the caller enters in an "extension number" which is equivalent to the e.164
number of an endpoint. The software would then forward the call to the
appropriate endpoint.

I am (this weekend hopefully), going to be testing the "forwarder" app. from the
Open H.323 CVS. thinking that it may be possible to utilise this as a base along
of course with theGnuGK as the gatekeeper! :-)

Thoughts?

Lance



Jan Willamowius wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it looks much like a CallCenter setup to me:
> You get a call in and have to decide to which endpoint to route the call.
>
> My idea would have been to signal incomming calls to a predefined set of
> e.164 numbers on the status port of the gatekeeper and let an external
> control application decide whether to accept the call and where to route it.
>
> That would be a very generic model and could be used (and coded/supported)
> by many parties.
>
> Are other gatekeeper developers interested in such a feature ?
>
> Cheers,
>         Jan
>
> > Jan,
> >
> > Lance Wicks here, as you have been able to tell I sadly have not had
> > much time to try and contrubute to the documentation of your project.
> > This is due to being very busy at work....sorry!
> >
> > We have finally built our H.323 based video conferencing network which
> > has been an ordeal as we struck some nasty firewall issues.
> >
> > A result has been that we have identified a need for a piece of software
> > which we do not think exists...yet.
> > I have started the H323IP-IP project on sourceforge.net to try and
> > create a piece of software which will answer a h.323 call and route it
> > through to a e.164 number based on a DTMF input.
> > This would allow outside parties to call our e.164 numbers without
> > having to be registered to our gatekeeper, etc.
> >
> > I am interested to hear your opinions and ideas.
> >
> > Lance
> >
>
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