Newbie question alert! I was just wondering how a receptionist phone would work with Asterisk. (I've never had a real job, so I've never really looked at different phone systems). I have looked around on the internet and seen that you can purchase 24 line phones; how does that get connected? What kind of wiring goes to the reception phone? How would I go about adding one of these to an asterisk phone system? (Hardware required, sample configuration) Any help is always appreciated.
Hello, I have a customer interested in an * system, however she wants to ensure that the receptionist phone will display who is on the phone and who is not. It is an office of 10 people, and there are 12 PRI channels available. She is an older lady and does not want to use a web interface. Any suggestions? Cheers Cian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20041204/f6134518/attachment.htm
> I have a customer interested in an * system, however she wants to ensure > that the receptionist phone will display who is on the phone and who is > not. It is an office of 10 people, and there are 12 PRI channels available.> She is an older lady and does not want to use a web interface. Any > suggestions?In other words, she wants to look at a device that indicates hook status of various extensions. I am guessing also that "web interface" extends to computer interface of any kind. Assuming the above, then why are they interested in Asterisk? If they like the ability to trunk between offices, for example, using inexpensive public Internet connections, Asterisk might have a place in this scenario, but from what you have said here, Asterisk is not the solution for their needs. Square pegs, round holes. They need a basic key system with a receptionist console. Greg
>I have a customer interested in an * system, however she wants toensure that the receptionist phone will display>who is on the phone and who is not. It is an office of 10 people, andthere are 12 PRI channels available. You could look at the Snom 220 with its expanded call board. http://www.snom.com/snom220_en.php The LEDs on the SNOM phone's keys work very well with *.