You could keep your phones if you used a Norstar SIP Handset Gateway from http://www.citel.com/products/handset_gateways/
Each handset gateway allows you to convert up to 24 Norstar handsets from the proprietary Norstar signalling protocol to SIP. Other handset types are also supported. Disclaimer: I work for Citel. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Warren Sent: 17 January 2006 14:28 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Building from scratch,would like the benefit of everyone's experience Hi all, I am going to be building an Asterisk system to replace the current aging (aged) Nortel Meridian system in a travel agency. There is already a voice T-1 in place and currently there are about 20 extensions in use. I would want to move up to about 25 extensions immediately and about 30-35 within the year. I am going to want IVR and voicemail, plus the ability to ring a group of phones at once if the caller wants a salesperson. Here is what I am thinking of so far: Server: Dell PowerEdge 1850 with redundant power supplies and hardware RAID 1 across 2 drives, running Centos 4.x - nice server with redundancy and only 1U T-1 Interface: Digium TE110P I would like any comments about those choices and also some comments about what phones would be good. I can make the business case for almost any reasonable budget - I just need to know what would be best and if I need any other cards (Noise cancellation?) - If so I would probably have to go to a 2U server like a 2850. The phones are my biggest question mark right now. I know basically nothing about IP phones. The only thing that I do know is that having 2 ethernet ports would be very helpful since there is only 1 network connection per desk and that is already plugged into a PC. I would like phones that allow static IPs (which I assume all do) so that the programmers can allow a Customer Service rep to bring up the sales record(s) of the person they are on the phone with based on their phone number. Thanks for any help, Warren _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
