[Sussex] Asterisk/Trixbox

[Al Bennett]

Thank you Jo[h]ns, this is great stuff!

I'll have a look at FreePBX, seems like a sensible idea to bundle a good gui 
with Asterisk.

They're going to hook up to BT via three POTS lines, it may not give the 
best quality but at least there's a fallback option of using standard 
handsets should the VOIP stuff fail for some reason.

Some noobie questions:
- How easy would it be to configure a system where people all handsets can 
ring on an incoming call?
- Is it fairly straightforward to kind of log on/off so that if there's only 
one person in the office other calls go straight to a catch-all voicemail 
once a handset has been picked up?
- Is it possible to see the number of voicemail messages waiting on the 
handset?

Clearly this is a huge topic!

Many thanks for your help so far

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Crowhurst" <fyremoon at fyremoon.net>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Asterisk/Trixbox


> On Mon, July 10, 2006 19:19, Al Bennett wrote:
>> Evening all
>>
>> One of the companies I work for has a small office (three people) and
>> we're
>> considering some kind of PABX type set up for three lines.
>>
>> Does anyone here have any experience of setting up a simple Asterisk or
>> Trixbox type set up?  What kind of SIP handsets and PC hardware did you
>> use?
>
> Trixbox has its limitations but is a great way to look at the telephone
> system visually. You can create IVR extensions through its web frontend
> for instance and watch the calls using the Flash operator panel.
>
> If you rolled your own Asterisk box, you have control of which interface
> you wish the users to see and use and more hands on control of the
> extensions and channels you wish to implement.
>
> I'd suggest getting a Digium TDM400P card to handle the phone lines (with
> 3 FXO modules) and dedicated IP phones (as they plug straight into the
> ethernet.)
>
> If you are using a wireless network setup, Cisco/Linksys sell an adapter
> that turns a wired IP phone into a wireless phone.
>
> Get Cisco or Snom handsets as they tend to be more featureful and more
> reliable than cheap budgetone phones. IIRC you can setup the Snom phones
> from their builtin web server.
>
> -- 
> John
>
>
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