Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines on a phone ?. I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only used one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) The only time I've ever found a use was when I had two systems (production and test) and it caused so much grief (could have been asterisk or cisco) I simply use a softphone for testing now. Curious minds are wanting to know ... Julian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20091125/900b2262/attachment-0001.htm
On 10:18, Wed 25 Nov 09, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:> Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines on > a phone ?. > > I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only used > one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) > > The only time I've ever found a use was when I had two systems (production > and test) and it caused so much grief (could have been asterisk or cisco) I > simply use a softphone for testing now. > > Curious minds are wanting to know ...I use three lines on my cisco 7960 (not sip, but that's not really relevant here) 1 - Private home number 2 - Daytime job number I got from work and is redirected to my home asterisk box from the office pbx 3 - number for my private business. The other three buttons are speeddial. -- Michiel van Baak michiel at vanbaak.eu http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?"
I use two 'lines' though 'Line appearances' would be a better term, though still confusing in my book. One line for incoming, one line that auto-answers for paging. Cisco really has so many line appearances on their phones to enable BLF using SIP over TCP. -Dave From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Julian Lyndon-Smith Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 5:18 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] How many lines do you use. Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines on a phone ?. I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only used one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) The only time I've ever found a use was when I had two systems (production and test) and it caused so much grief (could have been asterisk or cisco) I simply use a softphone for testing now. Curious minds are wanting to know ... Julian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20091125/84669af4/attachment.htm
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com> wrote:> Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines on > a phone ?. > I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only used > one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) > The only time I've ever found a use was when I had two systems (production > and test) and it caused so much grief (could have been asterisk or cisco) I > simply use a softphone for testing now. > Curious?minds are wanting to know ...Cisco describes those as 'buttons' as you can map them to features as you wish, such as speed dial that the one poster mentioned. I have one set up as a test/debug phone, where I have five buttons mapped to different asterisk systems where the phone registers. This lets me dial direct and do better testing specific to the roll of a given server. My polycom phones only have two lines or buttons or whatever you want to call them, and are less useful for that specific purpose. I agree that if you only have the phone registering with a single server, six simultaneous lines seems like overkill.
At 02:18 AM 11/25/2009, you wrote:>Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip >lines on a phone ?. > >I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every >only used one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;)I've fought with the same question. When I first set it up, every phone had 4 sip lines so I could tell where the call came from. As my skills and understanding got better I changed them all back to one and use the dialplan the modify the callerid Name to tell me where the calls came from. It seems to work much better this way and it's a lot easier to keep track of what's going on. Also, the phone understands how to deal with 9 calls at once if you just let it be and if you start assigning a line to each button it doesn't seem to handle that kind of thing as well. Aastra 480i-CT. Ira
<snip> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com>wrote:> Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines > on a phone ?. > > I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only > used one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) ></snip> Polycom 501 with 3 lines: 1 - Office Line 2 - Personal Line 3 - Tests -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20091125/da5c362b/attachment.htm
Hello all, Do you know if it IS possible to use multiple lines/extensions on SIP with a Cisco 7960 or other phone models? My boss wanted to have 1 physical phone but have it register to a couple of different extensions, then use different ringtones to identify which line was ringing when a call came in. Thanks, Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michiel van Baak" <michiel at vanbaak.info> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:40:07 AM Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] How many lines do you use. On 10:18, Wed 25 Nov 09, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:> Just for some information really : How many of you use multiple sip lines on > a phone ?. > > I'm sitting here looking at my 7960, with it's 6 lines. I've every only used > one line, and I was wondering if I was a weirdo ;) > > The only time I've ever found a use was when I had two systems (production > and test) and it caused so much grief (could have been asterisk or cisco) I > simply use a softphone for testing now. > > Curious minds are wanting to know ...I use three lines on my cisco 7960 (not sip, but that's not really relevant here) 1 - Private home number 2 - Daytime job number I got from work and is redirected to my home asterisk box from the office pbx 3 - number for my private business. The other three buttons are speeddial. -- Michiel van Baak michiel at vanbaak.eu http://michiel.vanbaak.eu GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x71C946BD "Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?" _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20091125/07f3583c/attachment.htm