Maybe I am getting this wrong - every phone I look at says it handles a given number of lines.
I don't want to spend the extra for 4 appearances when all I need is 2. Where I must be missing something is: Imagine w/ have 2 appearances phones - no operator - the phones just ring. Lets say a call comes in and its for Joe, Joe picks up another call comes in, this time for Fred - he picks up now a call comes for me - wouldn't their above calls occupy all of our appearances? If not I would think we would need some type of operator forwarding the call to the phones instead of just having them ring. Sorry, I'm not getting it - maybe I'm just too old fashioned. I'm trying to do this as simply and economically as possibly w/o sacrificing quality. Your help is GREATLY appreciated. -Dane Kerry Garrison wrote: > You need to separate lines from call appearances. Asterisk has lines (actual > phone lines) and phones have call appearances (number of simultaneous calls > the phone can handle). You could have 1000 lines going into your Asterisk > box but the typical user doesn't need more than 2 - 4 simultaneous calls. > On the flip side, you could have 4 "lines" coming into your asterisk server > and have 100 phones with 4 call appearances each. By using Asterisk to > manage the lines, you don't need 400 phone lines to support 100 phones w/4 > call appearances each. > > Kerry Garrison > Publisher - http://GeekGazette.com - http://VOIPSpeak.net > (949) 502-7819 x200 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.techdatapros.com > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Dane Reugger >> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:09 AM >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion >> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations >> >> If you have 16 call appearances or lines - how do you get to >> line 16 - type in some code? >> >> >> Adam Goryachev wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:00 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Polycom SoundPoint 601 has 4 'lines'. :) >>>> >>>> >>> Actually, it has 6 'lines' :) >>> >>> >>> >>>> Needing a 4 line phone is going to decrease your >>>> >> choices of phones. >> >>>> >>>> Why do you need 4 lines? >>>> >>>> >>> He probably hasn't worked out the difference between 'call >>> >> appearances' >> >>> and lines yet.... Even a polycom 301 (with 2 'lines' can >>> >> handle loads >> >>> of calls, I think the limit is something like 16 per line, >>> configurable in the xml file). >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adam >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> --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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > --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
