Asterisk should work fine for this application - but you and/or your users may be expecting the Grandstreams to look/act like traditional key system phones, where you've got a bunch of buttons labeled "Computer Room" or "Joe" and "Bob", or whatever, where you can press that button to call that extension.
The Budgetones don't do that - users will need to remember (or have an extension list to tell them) that the Computer Room is at extension 110, and Joe is at 111, and Bob is 112, and so forth. My suggestion is that you buy 2 Budgetones and set up Asterisk on an old PC - so your total investment in the experiment will be < $200. Get that up & running, and let users play with the phones and the functions you can provide. If they like it, great. If they don't like it, you're not out much money, and you ought to be able to resell the Budgetones for something like 80% of the new price on Ebay or whatever. You can get set up with incoming and outgoing IAX connections via someone like Voicepulse or Nufone or IPKall (or some combination thereof) so you can even let people experiment with incoming and outgoing call quality and behavior without spending a lot on interface cards. You might also look at some of the other VoIP phones, which aren't a whole lot more money and might look more like the PBX/key phones that people are used to. The Budgetones are more similar to consumer/home telephones from the early 1990's. -- Greg Broiles, JD, EA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lists only. Not for confidential communications.) Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles San Jose, CA _______________________________________________ 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
