Hi All, Please excuse my newbie questions, but figured this would be the best place to ask. I have been reading up on VOIP and implementing Asterisk as a PBX. I'm still left wondering if Asterisk supports multiple lines at once? If I had one land line, voip line, and asterisk setup and 10 people called my number, would all 10 people be able to speak to their appropriate party at the same time, or would the other 9 get a busy signal? Also, could this work with outgoing calls? If this DOES work, can anyone explain how it works? More importantly, at what point does the analog line move to the VOIP line, and how is the connection maintained? I'm sure I'm "nuking" this out, but I'm still trying to figure out most of the acronyms related to all this stuff. Thanks. :) Jim
This is a huge pile of questions - have you had a good read of the wiki? The Asteriskdocs book? -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lists Sent: Tuesday, 10 May 2005 2:01 PM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Multiple Calls with Asterisk? Hi All, Please excuse my newbie questions, but figured this would be the best place to ask. I have been reading up on VOIP and implementing Asterisk as a PBX. I'm still left wondering if Asterisk supports multiple lines at once? If I had one land line, voip line, and asterisk setup and 10 people called my number, would all 10 people be able to speak to their appropriate party at the same time, or would the other 9 get a busy signal? Also, could this work with outgoing calls? If this DOES work, can anyone explain how it works? More importantly, at what point does the analog line move to the VOIP line, and how is the connection maintained? I'm sure I'm "nuking" this out, but I'm still trying to figure out most of the acronyms related to all this stuff. Thanks. :) Jim _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this email message in error, please notify us immediately and erase all copies of this message and attachments. Thank you. CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this email message in error, please notify us immediately and erase all copies of this message and attachments. Thank you.
Jim Lists wrote:> Hi All, > Please excuse my newbie questions, but figured this would be the best > place to ask. I have been reading up on VOIP and implementing Asterisk > as a PBX. I'm still left wondering if Asterisk supports multiple lines > at once? If I had one land line, voip line, and asterisk setup and 10 > people called my number, would all 10 people be able to speak to their > appropriate party at the same time, or would the other 9 get a busy > signal?Unless you had a voip service that allowed that many incoming calls and also setup a busy redirect on your land line they would get a busy signal. Also, could this work with outgoing calls? Again depends on if your voip service allows that many calls on the same account at the same time. If this DOES work,> can anyone explain how it works? More importantly, at what point does > the analog line move to the VOIP line, and how is the connection > maintained?Your pstn land line can only handle 1 call at a time To handle more at the same number you need a rollover or busy redirect. Then you could forward the next calls to another number. Either more land lines or a voip provider number. I'm sure I'm "nuking" this out, but I'm still trying to> figure out most of the acronyms related to all this stuff. > > Thanks. :) > Jim > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Jim Lists wrote: <snip>> I'm still left wondering if Asterisk supports multiple lines > at once? If I had one land line, voip line, and asterisk setup and 10 > people called my number, would all 10 people be able to speak to their > appropriate party at the same time, or would the other 9 get a busy > signal?If all 10 called your land line at the same time, only one will get through and the rest gets the busy signal. There will be variations to this, depending on if you've got value added stuff like call waiting etc on the landline.> Also, could this work with outgoing calls? If this DOES work, > can anyone explain how it works?Would what work? Ten outgoing calls at once? If that's what you mean, then the answer would be "not likely" :)> More importantly, at what point does > the analog line move to the VOIP line, and how is the connection > maintained?It would depend on how you've got the stuff set up. You didn't mention if the VoIP line was internal or "incoming" from a VoIP provider. Is your question really "How does the incoming VoIP call get through to my (analog) extension" or "How does the internal VoIP call go out through my landline"? In both cases, you should check out the Wiki at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk for more information on how it works. Cheers, Flynn
--- Tim Litwiller <tim@litwiller.net> wrote:> Your pstn land line can only handle 1 call at a time > > To handle more at the same number you need a > rollover or busy redirect. > Then you could forward the next calls to another > number. Either more > land lines or a voip provider number.Please help me understand this. Lets's say I have three land lines connected to my * box and I have my VOIP provider setup to accept more than one call simultaneously. If people dialed one telephone number and it was busy, Can Asterisk detect a busy signal and forward the call to one of the other two landlines? Thanks a lot Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html