I run Asterisk partnered up to the 280 (424 for us). We have a 6 cabinet installation of the Toshiba so I understand you dilemma. There are some quirks with the 280 that make it a challenge to use Asterisk with, but it's do-able. Keep in mind, you can move to the CTX or the CIX and still keep a lot of your investment and those systems play much better with Asterisk.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your response. I am investigating Asterisk as a possibility for our company, but I am not a 'phone guy', I am the Network Admin. I sent our phone guy a link to the Asterisk site, but he hasn't had time to look at it yet. I am simply trying to get a head start for him. He seemed to think it highly unlikely that we would be able to use any of our current system with it, but he admitted that not knowing anything about Asterisk, it was certainly possible he was wrong.
So, that said - after reading a little on CTX/CIX - those are just VoIP, but is this just a card added to our cabinet, then we need to get all new phones?
We are not that big of a company. We only have 35 phones now, with a potential to double or so in the next year or two. I really don't see us growing past 100 phones in the next 5 years, and our plan is to have the company sold well before then. We don't have a huge need for VoIP, although the boss may decide to give that a try some day. I still have concerns about reliability/voice quality/security myself.
So, how much work are we talking about to get our current system to play nice with Asterisk? Will we lose any functionality? Gain any? Do you know of any technical how-to's that my phone guy would be able to answer these questions from? Are you available to concult? If so, for how much?
Sorry to hit you with so much, but if I don't ask... ;) -- Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ --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
