[Asterisk-Users] Dumb question - reaching the PSTN

2006-03-29 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi everyone, I am fairly new to the idea of VoIP, although I've been reading about it off and on for the last few years. Now it is starting to look mature enough to consider implementing it, but there is one thing that I haven't been able to get a clear answer on... With Vonage, you are

[Asterisk-Users] Call Recording?

2006-03-23 Thread Charles Marcus
Is Asterisk capable of allowing for the recording of calls on a per extension basis? -- Best regards, Charles ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

[Asterisk-Users] Call Monitoring?

2006-03-23 Thread Charles Marcus
1. Is Asterisk capable of allowing for setting up Groups so that only one extension in a Group can selectively monitor one of the other extensions in the Group (but none of the others can initiate it)? This would be for Managers to listen to Sales Calls of other members of their Team, to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: problems with emailing voicemail

2006-03-23 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/22/2006 Avi Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: A smarthost is another SMTP server (e.g. your corporate email server, which should already be capable of sending outbound email) that your Asterisk box is configured to send all outgoing mail to, instead of trying to deliver it directly.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call Recording?

2006-03-23 Thread Charles Marcus
Kris Edwards wrote: Absolutely. This is well documented on the wiki at voip-info.org http://voip-info.org (as are the possible legal issues that you may have by recording the calls). Search for info about the asterisk application Monitor. Great, thanks! We will be doing this with full

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Phones were working fine - Now there is noaudiowhen calling between extensions

2006-03-22 Thread Charles Marcus
C F wrote: Polycoms are not the best if you want a phone that works behind NAT. Do you mean in general? Or only if you are trying to interconnect multiple offices? Are Polycoms fine for just one office, if the entire office is behind a NAT device, and the phones are only being used for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Fw: anybody has SIP realtime working ?

2006-03-22 Thread Charles Marcus
mustardman29 wrote: I might as well jump in. I am not clear on what the problem is but whether it's a problem on something that needs to be done frequently or infrequently or perhaps can be avoided with little effort, it's still a problem. Your argument is more like the classic it's not a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users Mailing List Traffic

2006-03-21 Thread Charles Marcus
Whether or not a forum is a better idea isn't really depending on the subject matter IMHO. Its success or failure depends on what the prospective participants like better. I personally cannot stand forums. That's a place where I have to expend energy to go there and manually click through

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users Mailing List Traffic

2006-03-19 Thread Charles Marcus
David Rahn wrote: This would lend its self to less repitition of questions as the lists would be much more searchable At this time I 3 months of this list and it is over 13,900 messages. In other words GREAT IDEA I THIRD THAT!! I do think all hardware disscussion ( as it effects

Re: [Asterisk-Users] New ncurses Asterisk Manager Interface

2006-03-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/16/2006 El Flynn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to compile the assman package This is a jok, right? I mean, no one would actually name a project something like 'assman', would they? lol ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: regexten

2006-03-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 3/17/2006 Douglas Garstang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It doesn't matter how often I expect them to go down. You have to plan for the worst. People are used to say, being unable to access a web page for a few minutes. Heck, they might not even notice. However, when someone's phone system

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Toshiba Strata DK-280 support?

2006-03-16 Thread Charles Marcus
Philip Edelbrock wrote: At some point (in a few months, probably) we'll turn off the Toshiba and put viop phones on everyone's desk (including some people's at a remote office and homes). It should also cut our phone bill down to a 1/10th of what it is now! Interesting... so, you consider

[Asterisk-Users] Toshiba Strata DK-280 support?

2006-03-15 Thread Charles Marcus
the voicemail system it forces on us. Can anyone provide any feedback on using this system with Asterisk? Am I wasting my time even thinking about it? Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles Marcus I.T. Director Media Brokers International 678.578.2200 x224 678.578.2240 fax

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Toshiba Strata DK-280 support?

2006-03-15 Thread Charles Marcus
I run Asterisk partnered up to the 280 (424 for us). We have a 6 cabinet installation of the Toshiba so I understand you dilemma. There are some quirks with the 280 that make it a challenge to use Asterisk with, but it's do-able. Keep in mind, you can move to the CTX or the CIX and still keep