logan wrote: > Thanks Paul. Your help is much appreciated here. > > No problem - been working on telephone systems for about 12 years now - which doesn't even make me an old hand...
> Surely, Asterisk does that well, but Asterisk needs to have multiple phone > lines for that. I thought that a traditional switchboard made that happen > without multiple phone lines. > Not really - but there's something you are missing in your understanding and it will come to you soon enough....just keep reading and asking questions. Of course, Asterisk can place many calls down a network connection/adsl/E1/DS3/etc. > BTW, in Asterisk terminology a phone line means different PSTN connections > to the operator, right? > Once again, I don't really understand this question..... > >> Why would you guess this? We had 16 phone lines in the first business I >> worked in. >> > > Yeah, that's fine, but even 16 phone lines don't mean you can have 16 desk > phones only or 16 simultaneous calls? > We had about 40 phones. We could make 16 inbound/outbound calls, and as many internal calls as we wanted to... > Thanks I will take a look at asteriskdocs. > Reading is a great way to learn things. PaulH _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
