I have just successfully setup Asterisk with 2 Cisco 7940 phones (converted for SIP) and a SIP softphone on a W2K box.....and it all seems to work very well.....to those who wrote this software, it is really cool.
Anyway, I am new to this software, and I have a lot of questions which I am hoping someone on the mailing list might be able to answer for me.....I am basically trying to get an idea of how/what I can do with Asterisk that I am already doing with our existing phone system....
Sorry about the length of the mail....the docs don't seem to cover some of the topics below.....
Thanx in advance for any help.
Chris.
* We currently have a Cisco IP telephony system (using their CallManager).....am I right in saying that Cisco phones using Skinny will not work with asterisk? Is it ever likely too?
* When we connect and power on a Cisco 79X0 phone for the first time, it automatically registers with the CallManager and is assigned a temporary number. We then do into the CallManager admin interface and assign it to its owner, give it its permanent number etc. Among the things which happen are the TFTP files for the phone (eg: SEP<mac_address>.cnf) get created as part of the automatic registration. When I converted the phones to SIP, I had to manually create config files for each phone (SIP<mac_address>.cnf etc.).....is there any way I can have this happen automatically?
* We have an 8 port E1 card in a Cisco 6509 which takes our main phone trunk to the public network. Can we connect an Asterisk PBX server with an E1 card to this? If so, could we then connect the Asterisk PBX to the callmanager? (Perhaps with another extension range).....and if so, how?
* .....or could we connect Asterisk to the 6509 over IP and so make it part of the main phone system?
* We have a Nortel Meridian PBX on our other campus which is connected to our IP telephony system via an E1 link to a Cisco Vg200 voice H.323 gateway.......would there be any way to point asterisk at this gateway and make it part of our main phone system that way? ....again if so how?
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