On Thursday 22 April 2004 07:05 pm, Joel Duffield wrote: > We want to use asterisk to extend our current phone system. It is a > regular plain old system. Has anyone done this before? Absolutely - in a lot of different ways.
> We would be > adding about 4 SIP (probably Cisco) phones to use with asterisk. What > kind of card will I need to use for this, FXS or FXO. Neither of those types of cards. You will need an ethernet card/connection to use a SIP phone. Also, before you pay all that money for new phones, you could test/learn using asterisk with free softphones. > Also does anyone have any ideas what the best way to go about this is, > should I just forward existing lines to specific phones (just to save on > running new telephone cabling) Many of the SIP phone have a built-in ethernet switch. Plug the phone's ethernet port into your network, then plug the computer at that station into the phone's ethernet port. You would not need any new/more cabling. > or would there be any simple ways to make > a small menu and just put one more layer before they get through? Asterisk is very flexible. Chances are you can do whatever you need - with some learning. ;) Anon _______________________________________________ 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
