We bought a toll-free DID (direct inward dial) number from Vitelity.net which is a SIP based VoIP provider, among other things. Our number is 1-866-457-0074. We wanted a number that had the name of our project in it – PORTEL – but Vitelity didn’t have it.
We added the configuration files needed for the ITP Asterisk Server to Yasmin’s Asterisk account. And we set up our Vitelity account to automatically route our DID to ITP’s Asterisk Server at asterisk.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu, which resolves to 128.122.151.44.
Currently, we have a simple Hello World working. We will be presenting the prototype we developed (see last post) on Thursday, while trying to get more than Hello World working on our Asterisk account.
800 Number? Really? Cool.
Let me know if you need any help with asterisk