UCS Kopano Meets with Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) call-in

Is there currently a way to setup a VOIP provider over a standard protocol like SIP-T or through PRI, etc, and add ability to use the telephone systems for the voice portion of a call or group call?

Hi @kopanogobigred,

we have looked into the possibility of adding phone dial in by the means of a webrtc to sip gateway for customer requests in the past and would be open to do so.

If you need this feature for a customer project please get in touch with our sales team.

Some general remarks:

  • even having the standby ability to dial into a room through sip will effectively break end to end encryption since you then need to decrypt the webrtc connection for the phone to join
  • if its for the “microphone and camera are so hard on a pc/laptop” then you can already use Meet on a (smart)phone. If you are concerned about the amount of data transmitted you can switch your end into audio only mode.

the idea is to have a local meeting server that is an alternative to solutions like webex, zoom, etc. STUN/TURN services present locally. SIP-T device present locally - potentially on the TURN server.

This is a technical discussion, not a sales conversation.

We recently added support for “bridge” type connections to our signalling server (will be used for a custom SFU). This same type of connection could be technically used to connect SIP systems. But unless there is a customer project that would make this viable to invest development capacities on this, this is nothing that we will be working on in the foreseeable future.

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