Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
On Monday, August 20, 2012, Ikka.vertika ikka.vert...@mitrakreasindo.com wrote: u need an analog telephone adaptor to connect your analog phone with switch hub. but the device is rather expensive. GrandStream 8 port ATA is about $200.00 which is much less than a single new SIP phone. Much much less expensive than new. The Cisco ATA is about $400.00 but may only give 4 analog telephone ports (FXS). Sent from Samsung Mobile Noam Birnbaum n...@maccentricsolutions.com wrote: Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
On 20 Aug 2012, at 01:37, Noam Birnbaum wrote: A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? You'd need an ATA or an analogue card. And how well they work, depends on if they are 'true' analogue, or have extra digital pairs etc. 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? You'd need to find out what features they have on their PBX, and compare this to FreePBX. Steve -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
u need an analog telephone adaptor to connect your analog phone with switch hub. but the device is rather expensive. Sent from Samsung Mobile Noam Birnbaum n...@maccentricsolutions.com wrote: Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
On Monday 20 August 2012, Noam Birnbaum wrote: Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? Via so-called Analogue Terminal Adaptors (ATAs). These are basically a SIP phone with an FXS interface instead of a handset and keypad. Alternatively, up to four analogue phones could be connected through something like a TDM400P fitted with four FXS modules. Note that ATAs are not cheap! Replacing the analogue phones with SIP phones might actually work out less expensive. 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? This is very unlikely. Check the feature set to be sure. Asterisk is basically a telephony construction kit; so the chances are, any feature they seem to be missing can be added, either in the dialplan or with an AGI script. -- AJS Answers come *after* questions. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Noam Birnbaum n...@maccentricsolutions.com wrote: Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com I have done a good deal installations where analog handsets, headsets, or many faxes just made sense. I have used T1 cards to connect to 24 port channel banks to provide true analog dialtone. I have also used SIP based channel banks with great success but never bothered messing with the fax issues. FreePBX should give you way more functionality than their current PBX, sometimes it just takes a little creativity and doing things differently. Always get the details of what they currently use. An admin assistant or secretary is usually the person that knows what bells and whistles everyone uses. That is the person that you really want to befriend for a smooth implementation. Finally, I have installed a handful of Inter Tel/Mitel PBXen along the way, and the phones I installed were infact digital and proprietary. Check the model number of the phones to see if they are truly analog, which I doubt. In that case, you can still use a FreePBX box, but you are going to have to integrate it with the Inter Tel, I usually put Asterisk in front and just timeout your ring to VM a little bit shorter on the Asterisk box than the Inter Tel. With phone prices what they are, and a very good Polycom (or whatever you like) SIP phone so cheap, I would seriously consider ditching the phones if you find that they are digital. Thanks, Steve Totaro -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
From: Noam Birnbaum n...@maccentricsolutions.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:39 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] using analog phones Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support - 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com Noam By the time you outfit the customer with analog gateways you are much better off with IP phones. You don't get all the nice features of FreePBX without dialing codes using analog phones. Also are the analog phones True FXS PSTN phones or are they specfic to their old system? How many phones do they need. I have six cisco IP 303 phones that I traded-in from a customer that wanted to step-up to our nicer 4 line Grandstream phones. We would be willing to make a good deal on the six as we do not use cisco. Contact me off list if you are interested in the phones. Thanks Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.) 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] using analog phones
Thanks to all who applied. I found out that their Inter-Tel phones are connected to an Inter-Tel Axxess box-thingamadoodle (that's a technical term). Inter-Tel was purchased by Mitel in 2009 so there's no support left. I think I'm gonna recommend they use IP phones or a different VoIP consultant…! Best, noam On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Bryant Zimmerman wrote: From: Noam Birnbaum n...@maccentricsolutions.com Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:39 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] using analog phones Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com Noam By the time you outfit the customer with analog gateways you are much better off with IP phones. You don't get all the nice features of FreePBX without dialing codes using analog phones. Also are the analog phones True FXS PSTN phones or are they specfic to their old system? How many phones do they need. I have six cisco IP 303 phones that I traded-in from a customer that wanted to step-up to our nicer 4 line Grandstream phones. We would be willing to make a good deal on the six as we do not use cisco. Contact me off list if you are interested in the phones. Thanks Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.) 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[asterisk-users] using analog phones
Hi folks, A client wants to keep their old Inter-Tel KTS analog phones for budget reasons. Two questions: 1. How could they use these with FreePBX? 2. Would they be losing any features that they currently have with their analog PBX? Thanks! Noam Birnbaum Mac Daddy http://www.maccentricsolutions.com 877.luv.macs x666 tweet @noamb Tech support — 877.luv.macs or supp...@maccentricsolutions.com -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
