I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally supported. Thanks Curt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060815/820a8bbd/attachment.htm
Any phone that supports Auto answer can do this, among those phones: Cisco 796x, Polycom 3xx,430,50x,60x, SPA9xx. The SPA9xx (which support auto answer) will even support it while you are on the phone, it will however put the current conversation on hold for the duration of the page. On 8/15/06, Curt Shaffer <cshaffer@gmail.com> wrote:> > > > > I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to > Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that > functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist > pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there > know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I > see that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally > supported. > > > > Thanks > > > > Curt > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >
For intercom, do you mean placing a call that is automatically answered by the
called party?
If so, the following works for legacy phones connected via a Citel Handset
Gateway, amongst others:
exten => _*803X.,1,Macro(user-callerid)
exten => _*803X.,2,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=alert-autoanswer)
exten => _*803X.,3,SIPAddHeader(Answer-Mode: Auto)
exten => _*803X.,4,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:4})
(so you dial *803 and then the extension number you want to target)
Similar techniques can be used for page.
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Curt Shaffer
Sent: 15 August 2006 17:16
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [asterisk-users] Page Groups
I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy PBX to
Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to keep that
functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the receptionist
pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does anyone out there
know of the best phones to do this with and if it is really even possible. I see
that intercom is not supported and paging appears to be minimally supported.
Thanks
Curt
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For paging, and I have not done this yet, you would probably have to
invite all the phones to a conference with the auto-answer
The below works great for intercom though ....
Polycom which I have used...
exten => _*7XXX,1,SetVar(ALERT_INFO=Ring Answer)
exten => _*7XXX,2,Dial....blah
Bill
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:46 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Page Groups
For intercom, do you mean placing a call that is automatically answered
by the called party?
If so, the following works for legacy phones connected via a Citel
Handset Gateway, amongst others:
exten => _*803X.,1,Macro(user-callerid)
exten => _*803X.,2,SetVar(_ALERT_INFO=info=alert-autoanswer)
exten => _*803X.,3,SIPAddHeader(Answer-Mode: Auto)
exten => _*803X.,4,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:4})
(so you dial *803 and then the extension number you want to target)
Similar techniques can be used for page.
-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Curt
Shaffer
Sent: 15 August 2006 17:16
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: [asterisk-users] Page Groups
I have a company that I am going to be moving away from a legacy
PBX to Asterisk. They use page zones pretty heavy and I would like to
keep that functionality. Basically when someone is not at their desk the
receptionist pages all of the phones, telling them there is a call. Does
anyone out there know of the best phones to do this with and if it is
really even possible. I see that intercom is not supported and paging
appears to be minimally supported.
Thanks
Curt
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