1) There is currently no intercom functionality supported by Asterisk as an "in-band" method of communicating with phones. There is the ability to make audio on a phone call appear out of the sound-out port on a soundcard, which may be what you're after if you have a PA system of some sort.
2) You can do everything you're looking for with Asterisk. Spend a bit of money on some hardphones (Cisco ATA-186 is my personal bias, since they have 2 lines and they're cheap) and get an X100P analog adapter. Everything you've mentioned can be demo'ed with that configuraion.
JT
Greetings all!
I've got some really silly questions. I'm a technical guy, and I understand
how the astrisk server works and how VOIP works, etc... The problem I have is
that at my small company we have a phone system with analog lines and
everyone here is comfortable with the concept of using them. I've never seen
IP phones in action so I don't know how they work from a users point of view.
For instance, we have 10 lines here. I'd someone calls for me, the person who answered the phone puts them on hold, intecoms me at my desk, if I'm not there he "all pages" me (announcement via speaker on all unused phones). If he gets ahold of me he tells me that so-and-so is on line X, and I can either pick up line X or tell him to put him into my voice mail. How would that sequance go if I had an astrisk PBX and IP phones everywhere? I need to wrap my brain around the concepts of *using* IP phones before I can go and think about setting up a system to use them.
I thank in advance anyone who can spare the time to help me understand this better. I really love what Astrisk could do for us here, and I'm hopeing that I can get it set up and useable without too much culture shock for the users. Thanks again!
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