Getting Asterisk to work with the proprietary phones from your Lucent PBX is not likely to happen ... you might be able to use Asterisk to act as a "front end" to your Lucent PBX by using FXS cards ... you would have Asterisk interface with the CO, then ring the Lucent box ... but you would not be able to make use of most of the PBX features of Asterisk doing this ...
about all you would get for your trouble is Attendant and VoiceMail ... how your Lucent phones would then retrieve voicemail would be a real challenge ... suspect they would have to pick up an "outside line" and dial a code into Asterisk to retrieve it ... transfers from Asterisk to specific Lucent extensions would not work ... You might be able to get a card for the Lucent box that would permit it to accept connections from a standard analog phone ... this would let you connect Asterisk as an extension ... grabbling an outside line would be a "dial 9" chore for Asterisk ... but connecting it as an extension would permit the auto attendant to do direct transfers to Lucent phones ... Best thing to do would be to replace the proprietary phones with generic SIP phones ... doing this would make your Asterisk configuration cleaner and easier to manage ... also a lot more predictable ... Check the wiki at http://www.voip-info.org ... there are a number of articles about how to interface Asterisk with legacy phone systems ... some are quite creative and overcome most limitations ... G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: Jean-Francois Theroux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] newbie questions Hello, At the office we have a Lucent PBX, which has 3 lines coming from the CO. 2 are used for phones, 1 for fax. In the office, we have 16 phones. All those are connected in the PBX. We do not have an automated system nor voicemail system for now. But this is something we would like to have now. Since we do a lot of work with Linux, I was asked to look into asterisk to deplace our PBX. Software-wise, I don't have any problems yet, doesn't look too bad hard to configure. Now, I know I would need a quad-port FXO card for our lines coming in from the CO in that PC. What would be the best way to connect all those 16 digital phones to the Asterisk box? I could always buy quad-ports FXS cards for now, as we don't use the 16 phones, but I don't think that's going to work well in the future when the company grows and we require more phones. Keep in mind telephony is very very new to me. Any help would be very appreciated. -- Jean-Francois Theroux Systems administrator PrivalODC 514.726.3732 http://www.privalodc.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
