Gary Richardson wrote: > >From my understanding this is more like a 'Key' system than a 'PBX'. > > You can make all you phones ring when a certain number is dialed. The > first one to pick up gets the call. I can't think of exactly what this > functionality is called, but I believe there are menus for it in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps it's call groups? > Makes sense - then I guess you transfer it to the actual recipient if needed. Maybe we need to rethink phone requirements. Right now we just put a phone on hold and yell "Fred Line 4 is for you" - I guess transferring would be too much for us.
> You need to think of asterisk as a multiplexor -- you have x number of > lines coming in from the PSTN and y number of phones. Not all phones > are active at one time and it is completely indescriminate when it > comes to the next available line. It doesn't matter which line gets > picked up when you dial 9, just that you get an outside line. > This I do understand - not 1 line per phone line > You should be able to get your telco to assign the same phone number > on mutliple lines and it will ring through to the next available line > (similar to how a T1 works). > we have them in a hunt group - if first number is busy - it rings the 2nd number, etc. Until we trust, understand, and experience VoIP - we will be using current lines w/ FXO for incoming and Teliax for outgoing. eventually we may port our number to VoIP but not for a while and we will keep a POTS line for 911, Fax, etc.. Thanks again, Dane > On 1/24/06, Dane Reugger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > --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
