You guys talked me into it. I looked at using my usual host, lyris.net, but I decided to pull a spare PC out of storage and built a PiaF/IncrediblePBX 2.0 box w/Google voice. I haven't worked with GV before and this seems to be a good excuse to add that to my list of things I've tried before. With spare stuff I have laying around, this shouldn't cost the school a penny which is a good thing for any school in these times. Now it would be nice to find a module that will do reverse-911 type of stuff so they can call out for snow days and such this winter.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:44 PM, David Gibbons <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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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