> Forgive me if this question has been asked/answered in another post. > And let me reiterate what other users have frequently said - Asterisk is > great, and I really appreciate all the work you folks have put into it. > > How have some of you gone about integrating Asterisk with a legacy office > PBX, such that the end-user can use a regular office (digital handset) and > dialing is fairly seamless ? > Our end-users are accustomed to picking up their office handset and just > dialing a 4 digit extension to reach another staffperson in our office. > I'd like to replicate that so they can reach staff in our other > (international) offices (behind the scenes, the call would route over IP). > > For instance, we have regular NEC handsets talking to an NEC PBX, and an > analog line from the PBX to the Asterisk FXO. > I already had our NEC tech set up an access code/alias, such that an end- > user just dials 6 and it goes to the analog line going into Asterisk. > Asterisk picks up after about 2 rings, and then the end-user is prompted > to enter the destination phone number (which would be an e.g. 3 digit > number corresponding to a SIP destination in the dialplan). > But this means the end-user has to dial 6 and then wait for Asterisk to > pick up. I'd Is there a way to have Asterisk pick up sooner, e.g. without > any rings ? Ultimately, I'd like to get it to the point where the end-user > doesn't have to pause at all. In other words, they could dial e.g. 6123 > and their call would be appropriately routed. I realize that probably > involves configuring Least Cost Routing on the NEC PBX, but that still > leaves the issue of having to wait for Asterisk to pick up the line. > > Any help is appreciated.
John, I am familiar with NEC PBX's. Please contact me offline and I'll be happy to give you all of the information that I have. We can post the results to the list without all of the intermediate discussions. For kicks, here you can check out some work I did to get my NEC 2400 talking to my * box: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+NEAX2400 -MC _______________________________________________ --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
