Can I use Asterisk or Issabel as a SIP provider with LiveKit?

Telephony
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This question originally came up in our Slack community and the thread has been consolidated here for long-term reference.

I’m trying to run my Voice AI on telephony, but I can’t use any of the suggested providers due to various constraints.

Is it possible to run an Issabel or Asterisk server and connect it to LiveKit?

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Yes, you can set up your Asterisk server as a SIP trunk and it should work similarly to using any of the other SIP providers.

Follow a guide like the Twilio trunk configuration, but substitute your Asterisk server configuration: