Redundancy with FXO

[buddyel]

I need to know how to achieve redundancy using FXO ports on our routers. We have two 3745 routers each with one PRI off of our DS3 from our telco provider, however we have had two occassions in the last month where we've been down completely, no inbound or outbound calls.

We have two 4-port FXO cards and 8 POTS lines in a hunt group which we just havent gotten around to configuring. My question is how do we go about this. What needs to be configured on the routers and what needs to be configured in CM? Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[pndscm]

Are you running MGCP or H323? If H323, configure the FXO voice-port for 'connection plar XXXX' with XXXX being your Main answering position or extension. This will take care of incoming calls. For outgoing calls, configure your RP's pointing to the Gateways IP address and configure the appropriate dial-peers on the router.

For MGCP, configure the FXO ports in the Gateway configuration. Put the XXXX number in the configuration there. For outgoing, point the RP's the same way as you have for the PRI.

 

[pndscm]

Sorry that was the Readers Digest version. If you need more specific info, just ask.