Hi all! Having stuck my neck out and going for [*] for our new sales office, (instead of upgrading a Meridian-Nortel key system), one of the main concerns remains the support (or lack thereof) of paging / intercom functionality. Maybe I am just missing somthing elementary? Here goes: After perusing the list archives, I am more & more concerned about the 'paging' 'voice call' 'intercom' scenario.
Quoted below is a message from John Todd (sometime last year) on the list: <quote> This is not an explicit answer to all of your questions, but... 1) There is currently no intercom functionality supported by Asterisk as an "in-band" method of communicating with phones. There is the ability to make audio on a phone call appear out of the sound-out port on a soundcard, which may be what you're after if you have a PA system of some sort. 2) You can do everything you're looking for with Asterisk. Spend a bit of money on some hardphones (Cisco ATA-186 is my personal bias, since they have 2 lines and they're cheap) and get an X100P analog adapter. Everything you've mentioned can be demo'ed with that configuraion. JT </quote> Let's see if I got this right: (a) single line SIP phones (e.g. GS-BT100) not likely to provide "auto answer" on demand, i.e. allow a 'page' to come through (b) multi line SIP phones: configure an extension for "auto answer". [*] may support all-page by sending voice to all non-busy phones at the same time (c) use ATA-186 - or similar - adapter, and inexpensive ANALOG (2 line?) phone to provide the intercom / pageing functionality For a deployment where there is a relatively large number of phones, the cost-per-phone evidently becomes a principal driver. Here's the user classes: (1) regular user: inexpensive GS BT100 may work. (2) power user / manager (3) shared phones in public areas: i.e. kitchen, computer room (4) attendant Using an old-style paging system is out of the question. Paging must be supported through the hard phones. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
