I would do ATAs connected to walmart wireless handsets for wireless phones. Seems cheaper/easier.
Sounds like a cool deployment and I agree with Fred -- this sounds like the perfect application of *, rather than overkill. Best, Dave On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Robert Rothberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Because they really don't need any of the feature set and my hope is that > they won't need to come to me for questions/admin/maintenance. I'd prefer > to give them something I can walk away from and will have very minimal set > up time. I'm also not sure about wireless endpoints being I usually use > Polycom 550s. I could throw a sipura I have in the basement onto a wireless > base station which would make all the DECT phones a single extension. > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Fred Posner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Robert Rothberg wrote: >> >> > Hello all, normally I pitch Asterisk based solutions but I think for >> this particular case, it would be overkill. My son's school (45 students >> total for grades 1-8, so very small, very limited budget) just added some >> office space across the street from the school. I have set up wireless >> networking between the two locations. >> > They now would like a phone system that supports the following: >> > >> > non POTS solution >> > supports two lines outgoing >> > supports two lines incoming >> > allows transfer of calls between extensions >> > if nobody answers transfer, VM picks up >> > wireless extensions (up to 4) >> > intercom type paging between extensions (would be nice, but not >> mandatory) >> > >> > I thought about OOMA, but the range would be too far for handsets in one >> location to reach the Telo device in the other location (there is a ton of >> concrete and brick between the two as well). So I think this will need to >> be something SIP based. This is something I am doing for free, so any low >> budget ideas that would meet these requirements would be appreciated. >> Obviously wireless isn't the ideal situation for VoIP, but there isn't much >> choice in this scenario. >> > >> > Thanks much for any suggestions. >> > >> >> Especially for the money, how would Asterisk be overkill? >> >> I would recommend either Asterisk, Asterisk NOW, FreePBX, or AstLinux. >> >> With best regards, >> >> Fred >> http://qxork.com >> >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
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