[EMAIL PROTECTED] is believed to have said: Jason,
>I'm sure these questions have been answered at some point, but I'm too new >to this stuff to know the right words to plug into the search function to >find what I need. well, yes of course. >I have never touched Asterisk before, but have wanted to for some time. >Now I finally think I'm going to bite the bullet, as I have a real-world >application for it! You are in for some fun and satisfaction; with some small price to pay... >My office consists of two employees, neither of whom work in the office >physically. Here is what I'd like to do. Hopefully someone can tell me >what I need to do/buy/configure/install to make it work... As a minimum set up you will need a CPU plus an interface to your incoming phone lines and most likely to an extension line in the main office. >I want all calls to come into the Asterisk box in the main office. Obvious. >I want all incoming calls to be recorded (not as concerned about outgoing >calls) Can be done from the dialplan. >Both employees have regular POTS telephone lines (one fellow has a land >line and a cell, the other has just a land-line). > >I'd like callers to be presented with a short menu of options, the >behavior of which might change depending on the time of day (for instance, >at night, I'd like both the "sales" and "support" calls to go to one >employee, while during the day I'd like sales to go to one person, and >support to go to another. I'd also like to have an answering machine >(built into Asterisk?) pick up calls that go unanswered. Can be done from the dialplan. Voicemail is an Asterisk application. >I guess that's about it. I looked at the Digium TDMxx cards, but don't >really know what I need in the way of FXO's and FXS's to pull off what I >want to do. That's a very good option. >As an added bonus, if someone knows of a VOIP adapter that allows one to >plug an analog phone into it AND accept both VOIP and normal phone calls >to the same phone, that would be cool (and might make things easier to >configure, without making each extension 100% dependent on VOIP). You could look into products from Sipura or from Grandstream. >Thanks in advance. I'm really looking forward to finally doing something >with Asterisk, one of the most exciting projects I've looked at for a >while!! But the very best advice I can give you is to start getting used to the Asterisk wiki and get the O'Reilly book on Asterik: it will be your friend. That's the small price to be paid. I found it worth. Regards Aldo _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users