My current local network consists of an on-premise FreePBX server, two Cisco IP phones and a Linphone client (softphone) on my laptop.
Everything in my local network is connected via switch and the phones are able to call each other.
For my next step, I want to bind my Lithuanian mobile phone number to my on-premise FreePBX server, so that when someone calls my mobile phone number - the Cisco IP phones which are sitting in my room and have 201 and 202 extensions start to ring. Also, it’d be cool if I could call someone using my existing mobile phone number but physically make the call using my Cisco IP phone.
I assume the first step is to find & purchase a SIP trunk provider in my country and configure my local network, so that the FreePBX server is able to reach the internet.
Neither necessarily, I think Tele2 (check with your carrier too) has ‘simultaneous calling’ whereby you designate another number to ring as well as your cell phone, the DID’s you buy can, depending on the carrier, have you designate the presented ‘CallerID’ for each outgoing call to which you would use your cell phone number, and most carriers will let you forward incoming calls to another number if your PBX becomes unresponsive.
Have you had any experience on porting your old DID to a new SIP trunk provider? Instead of getting a DID from them, I’d like to go through the process of porting my existing DID to them.
It seems more complicated, but I should get more experience.