To use the Asterisk PBX with your BroadVoice VoIP phone service, please follow these instructions:

Installation:

1. Patching -
   This step is no longer necessary as the BroadVoice patch has been merged in 1.0.4 stable.
   
   
2. Build -
   Follow the standard Asterisk instructions.
   

Configuration:

1. Sip.conf

   • Pedantic
     In the [general] section ensure pedantic is set to no
     

     pedantic=no

     
     
     
   • Registration
     In the [general] section of the config file create a line like this:
     

     register => <phonenumber>@sip.broadvoice.com:<password>:<phonenumber>@sip.broadvoice.com/<extension>

     
     
   • Replace phonenumber with your account phone number,
   • Replace password with your password
   • Replace extension with one of your accessible extensions in the dial plan.
     
     

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2. BroadVoice Peer

   • Add a new section towards the bottom of the file to insure you don't overwrite any important data in [general]
     

     [sip.broadvoice.com] type=peer user=phone host=sip.broadvoice.com fromdomain=sip.broadvoice.com fromuser=<phone number> secret=<register password> username=<phone number> insecure=very context=from-broadvoice authname=<phone number> dtmfmode=inband dtmf=inband ;Disable canreinvite if you are behind a NAT canreinvite=no

     
     
   • Be sure you fill in fromuser with your phone number.
     
     

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3. /etc/hosts

   • Finding the right proxy
     Ping the following hosts and select for the best time:
     

     proxy.lax.broadvoice.com proxy.dca.broadvoice.com proxy.mia.broadvoice.com proxy.atl.broadvoice.com proxy.chi.broadvoice.com proxy.bos.broadvoice.com proxy.nyc.broadvoice.com

     
     After you have chosen the one with the best ping time, do a dnslookup by running nslookup on the hostname.
     
     
   • Modifying /etc/hosts
     Using the IP Address you received from nslookup add a line like this to /etc/hosts:
     

     {ip} sip.broadvoice.com

     
     Insert the IP appropriately
     
     

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4. extensions.conf

   • Default Dial Plan
     Put the following block in your extensions.conf as it will be your default dial plan:
     
     

     [default] exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 1, dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 2, congestion() exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX, 102, busy()

     
     

     ; This extended Dial Plan will enable International Dialing on The Unlimited World PLUS Plan ; This dial plan enables World Plus countries ; there are no built in ways to prevent calls to cell phone users (except in germany where Cell phone prefix's are ; carried by 1 and has been accounted for) exten=_01130.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01131.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01132.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01133.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01134.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011351.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011352.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011353.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011378.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01139.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01141.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011420.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01143.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01144.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01145.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01146.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01147.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01148.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01149[2-9].,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01154.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01155.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01156.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01160.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01161.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01164.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01165.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01181.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01182.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011852.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_01186.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011886.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011972.,1,dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@sip.broadvoice.com,30) exten=_011.,2,congestion() ; No answer, nothing exten=_011.,102,busy() ; Busy

Learn more about Asterisk PBX:

• Voip-info.org: The Asterisk SIP channel
• Voip-info.org: The Asterisk dial plan
• Asterisk.org