[asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread Carlos Alvarez
This is something I've seen with some key systems and PBXs. When the phones are on-hook, they can play music throughout the office instead of having an overhead speaker system do it. Never heard of it being done with VoIP, but figured I'd ask if anyone else has. I don't see any way to do this

Re: [asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread chris
I've seen this implemented on polycom phones where a secondary extension is on the phone that is setup to auto answer and they have something on the PBX side that is configured to call some or all of the secondary extensions On Jan 10, 2013 8:28 PM, Carlos Alvarez car...@televolve.com wrote:

Re: [asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread Christopher Harrington
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:31 PM, chris tknch...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen this implemented on polycom phones where a secondary extension is on the phone that is setup to auto answer and they have something on the PBX side that is configured to call some or all of the secondary extensions

Re: [asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread Carlos Alvarez
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Christopher Harrington ch...@acsdi.comwrote: Wow, that seems wildly bandwidth inefficient. Is it possible to do multicast VoIP? Depends on whether the phones are local to the server. Unless you're looking at hundreds of phones, a 100MB network running 80k to

Re: [asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread chris
Lol yes it was all local on a gigE network even :) I also didnt say it was the most elegant solution but it seemed to work well with them they even had grouped it into extensions and I'm sure you could even write some logic to make sure the calls are local On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Carlos

Re: [asterisk-users] Playing music through VoIP handsets while on hook

2013-01-10 Thread Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
Am 11.01.2013 02:42, schrieb Christopher Harrington: Wow, that seems wildly bandwidth inefficient. Is it possible to do multicast VoIP? Snom phones[*] do support multicast streaming. You can setup an IP port combination that the phone will accept audio at; once stream data starts arriving,