You have more options than you know. You could go with a channel bank if you want to keep support for the analog phones in the classrooms now(my school had them) or you could goto the next step with the sip phones. I have looked around and found a couple vendors to be fairly inexpensive.
Check this link out: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones Check under hardphones. It's a very good resource for the information your looking for. As far as the dialplan. It would take no time to build what your looking for and get everything setup. Got any questions feel free to drop me a email .o-------------------------------------------------------o. Brian Fertig Network Engineer Planet Telecom, Inc. Tampa, FL Office 813.864.3161x107 Office 813.864.3164 Direct 813.817.9961 Cellular 813.881.9762 Fax Web: www.planet-telecom.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------->IM's<--------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ptelebrian Yahoo: ptele_brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stewart M. Ives Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] New Project - IP Phone Sources Hello, Background: Old to UNIX & Linus, New to list. A techie Dad that supports local k-8 school that my kids go to. More background: Recently the school wanted to put phones in all the classrooms for teacher communications to/from the office. Another Dad in the telecom business spec'ed out a standard PBX with wiring, etc. Needless to say it was Expensive with a Captitol "E". Anyway I started looking around at open source and found Asterisk. We currently have a complete switched network within the school (jsut replaced all hubs with switches) and have multiple PC's in each classroom as well as the front office. We also run RH Linux for our webserver, email server, file server, Websense server, and library software server. Question: If I just want to provide IP Telephony within the school and have no outside connections to the local phone system I suspect I can install Asterisk on a RH Linux server and plug in a bunch of IP Telephones on the network, config it all and it will work. The only cost to the school would be the IP Telephones. Correct?? I know it would involve a bit more configuration and planning as I have stated but basically is the idea correct?? Question: What phones or types of phones should I be looking at. I suspect there are new ones coming out every day. I'm just interested in the most basic phone to plug into the network. Nothing fancy, basic, basic, basic. I also know I can use soft phones but do not want to go there as it makes just another application we have to be responsible for on the desktop. Many thanks in advance. BTW, the school is: www.sainttheresaschool.org stew >> >> Stewart M. Ives >> SofTEC USA >> WebSite: www.softecusa.com _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
