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Out of curiosity, how is the Asterisk equipment interfacing with the radio networks? Is the system/switch itself interfacing, or are you endpoints talking directly to it? What endpoints are your using?

There are a few different ways to skin that cat depending on what technology the customer is using for their wireless system. We have been deploying a lot of DMR and NXDN systems the last couple of years and all that equipment is basically built like a network appliance...digital from end to end. All the equipment has a network adapter built in and the repeaters and all the sites are networked using IP. We generally connect sites together and dispatch centers together using leased DSL lines when we have to, but I prefer to use microwave backhauls where we can. Some dispatch suites are purpose built to interface with those NXDN and DMR systems (or P25 or EDACS for hardened public safety systems) but other dispatch suites aren't. However, you would be hard pressed to find dispatch equipment that doesn't interface with a standard SIP phone. So if we are trying to mate a dispatch suit to a DMR or NXDN wireless system that doesn't support those protocols natively, we can connect the repeater systems and the dispatch system to an Asterisk network and let the Asterisk server translate all the traffic.

We have been hooking conventional and trunked analog radio systems to phone lines…