The company I work for used to make a product called the Brickmail which did exactly this. The Panasonic's interface is FXS ports, so the Astlinux box will need FXO interfaces. When a call comes into the Panasonic, it will ring it directly through to the box, which will do the IVR etc; when a user presses an extension, Astlinux will then to a blind flash transfer back on its FXO port by doing a hook-flash, dialing the panasonic extension number (likely the same number), and then hanging up once the Panasonic has hung up on Astlinux. The Panasonic rings the phone according to its programming, then if there's no answer, it will send it back to the Astlinux box (again, according to programming) prefixing the extension it dials with something like a * to signify that the call should route directly to the voicemail for that extension. Remember, the Astlinux box is acting just like an operator console, i.e. a telephone which is an FXO interface to the PSTN FXS, or in this case Panasonic PBX.
Just a reminder, please use the lists on SourceForge. Regards, Bryce Chidester Rhino Equipment Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 (480) 940-1826 x6351 Fax: +1 (480) 961-1826 FWD: 633686 x6351 IP: asterisk.rhinoequipment.com x6351 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and its attachments from all computers. Erick Perez wrote: > Hi, usually when I install an asterisk machine, the machine is alone, > meaning no other pbx around. > > This new customer is asking me to provide voicemail services and > autoattendant to his old panasonic PBX. > > However im unfamiliar with the setup. > > The setup is like this: > the panasonic gets the calls and it should transfer them to the > asterisk box. I guess this means that on the asterisk side it should > be FXS ports right? > > then, when the asterisk do the auto attendant stuff and transfers the > calls to an extension in the panasonic, it will do ablind transfer > right? freeing the channel. > > Now, when a user call the voicemail extension, this means that the > asterisk should have another set of FXS ports for the users right? > > So at the end: 3fxs ports for autoattendant and let's say another 3fxs > for voicemail right? > > the asterisk is not supposed to call anyone, so im not supposed to use > fxo, right? > > thanks in advance for your guidance. > > > > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER: AstLinux mailing lists are moving soon: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=170462 Please move any discussions ASAP!
