Sorry for the long delay in replying here. > 1. What ADSI phone do you use (in production:)), what is required to get > them going? I use Aastra PowerTouch 390s.
> 2. Can any of the ADSI phones monitor another extension to display a busy > indicator for that extension? No. ADSI provides a screen, softkeys, scriptable buttons, and such, but it cannot communicate with Asterisk without tying up the line. As such, it can't really provide a lot of the out-of-band information that comes in a PBX. This has been why I've beens sorely considering actually manufacturing my own PBX phones for Asterisk. > 3. Is there any standard business feature that you can't provide with > a 1 line ADSI phone + Asterisk(exluding tons of hacking)ie > hold,transfer by softkey, voicemail by softkey, conference call, > voicemail MWI etc.? Hold => check transfer by softkey => check voicemail by softkey => check conference call => check MWI => check I can't think of much that can't be done other than the pretty notification lights that don't scale beyond the 10-line/user point anyways. > Is there any advantage to having a 2 or even 3 line ADSI phone? None that I've seen. I've seen people try to maintain a call on line 2 while there was an ADSI session happening on line 1 (thus allowing some interactivity out of band). This never seemed to amount to a poor, buggy, hack. > 4. It seems the receptionist would be very limited in routing calls. Voice > menu is probably not an option. How have you dealt with that? Any reason > not do something like this: I don't understand this question, exactly. Our receptionists toss calls around with the ease. It's not single button transfer, but there is a certain wisdom in realizing that finding a single button in 200 can be vastly less efficient than using a paper extension index or DID extensions. > 5. Share a source for buying them? We can deal them. I can't get my vendor to tell me exactly what part number to order, but I can get the phones in and resell them at a competitive price point. I have the programming codes for the model I get. To be honest, the biggest issue blocking ADSI phones is getting a vendor to be open with you about the codes. Most ADSI vendors are selling phones that are to be programmable by a large telco third-party, not you!!! Thus, the attitude is often something like "If you legitimately needed the code, you'd already have it". This is a tough nut to crack considering how wary the telco people seem to be about getting socially engineered. > Any tips or info/configs would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
