What is a Trunk?
A Trunk is a SIP connection between your phone system and a VOIP provider for inbound and outbound calls. This section covers topics related to managing trunks.
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Read more on Trunk topic |
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For Sample trunk configurations go to: Examples - Trunks |
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Don't forget to configurethe Inbound and Outbound routes to properly route the incoming and outgoing calls |
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The Trunks section
You can find the Trunks section under the Tools menu.
Create a Trunk
If you want to create a new trunk click on the 
button and enter:
- the Trunk Name
- the Domain/Host name (ask the Provider)
- Authentication Password
- Default User Name
- Trunk Registry string (which is usually defaultuser:password@host)
Before adding the new trunk, remember to activate it by clicking the Active flag:
Edit/Modify a Trunk
Once a trunk has been created, you can edit it to change default values:
You can also duplicate a trunk (Clone Trunk) and modify the copy.
Settings
In the Settings Section you can change general settings inserted at trunk generation (like name, default user, password, context and so on) plus a set of other parameters (in this section and in the Advanced and Other Fields).
In the following example you have all the default parameters for the demo trunk (configured during installation):
Advanced
Other Fields
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Refer to the official Asterisk documentation for further information about the Voice service configuration |
Monitor Trunk Status
To monitor the trunk registration status go under Realtime in the Voice Section (read-more on Realtime) or click on Go to Realtime Trunk on the trunks list command menu:
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Trunk Status shows status of a SIP trunk registration to motion server
Registry shows SIP registration status when Motion registers as a client to the provider