Hi! We're currently evaluating sipx for our network and we got some questions about features we require/like. I believe that some of them are not commonly used in the US but only in Europe/Germany/Austria. It would be nice if the sipx gurus could tell us if a requirement fulfilled with the current version (and how) or how much effort it would require to implement the given feature. Please tell us also if we're using the wrong hardware/software for this evaluation.
Used equipment for our tests: - 2 Snom 320 (firmware version: 6.5.18 11694) - 2 Snom 360 (firmware version: 6.5.18 11694) - 2 Grandstream 2020 and 2 Linksys (only for comparing the phones as sipx does not support central config for them) - sipXconfig (3.10.2-013143 2008-07-23T18:09:14 ecs-centos5) Question 1: We want to create groups of phones which can see the status of each other. So if phone 1 calls phone2, phone3 (phone2+3 are in the same group) can see on the display who calls who( and also the LED's should accordingly burn (BLF)) and should be able to pickup the call. It is possible to configure this feature on the phones, but we found no way to configure that via sipx. Beside the work needed for > 3000 phones after each reboot of the phone the setting is lost. The BLF does not seem to work at all with our Snom test phones. Question 2: How can we configure sipx to play a sound file to an external caller before the called local extension starts ringing? The callee should not be required to press any button, he just waits until the "Welcome" message is done. Question 3: We have with our current old school telephone system a special kind of call back, which our users love. If phone 1 calls phone 2 but phone 2 is busy or does not answer phone 2 has displayed a missed call. As far as good. But we want to signal phone 2 that the callee from which the missed call came wants to have a call back. Is there a possibility to sign the called person on the phone that the callee wants to be called back? There should be a difference between the signing of a missed call and a call back wish. I did not find anything about this topic so far. Our current telephone system does not show missed calls at all it just shows callers which wanted a call back. This is provided by a burning LED which is label "mailbox" (Basically a BLF LED).The callee presses a button which leads to the actions our users call "putting a call back into the others mailbox" I guess it should be possible like this. The WMI LED on the Snom phones is trigged by sipx so if sipx would allow trigger its WMI state not by the call but be an special key stroke. Question 4: A nice feature the current system supports is following: A user goes to a different phone (not his phone). He enters a code and PIN and then he is reachable with his original number on this phone and the phone gets the configuration of his phone. He also should have his permissions (like calling none local) on this phone then. Is something like this possible? Maybe only a part? Question 5: Currently all phones are locked and allow only internal calls. If a user wants to call external he needs to enter a code + PIN to unlook the phone/phone system for this day (or only the next call, if it is not his phone). The phones get locked again in the evening to prevent misuse after the office hours. We found only the possibility to lock/unlock the phone by the user itself. Question 6: Our users are required to enter a code + PIN to indicate that the next call is a private call (it will be billed separate). Would this be possible with a special dial plan or something like this? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Robert Penz ---------------------------------------------------- Dipl. Inf. Robert Penz DVT-Daten-Verarbeitung-Tirol GmbH Adamgasse 22, 6020 Innsbruck Tel: +43 512 508 3334 / Fax: +43 512 508 3355 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users
