Has anyone used * in conjunction with an existing phone system to add certain features or to expand a department? Currently we have an existing nortel phone system. We would like to have the * server stand behind it and just handle VoIP services for our remote sales and technical people. We would like them to act as normal extensions (being able to dial them by extension from the existing phone system and have them dial extensions on the existing phone sytem).
Yep, works great -----Original Message----- From: Ben Turner <Ben.Turner@keithco.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:37:21 -0700 To: 'asterisk-users@lists.digium.com.' <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Supplementing Current phone system Has anyone used * in conjunction with an existing phone system to add certain features or to expand a department? Currently we have an existing nortel phone system. We would like to have the * server stand behind it and just handle VoIP services for our remote sales and technical people. We would like them to act as normal extensions (being able to dial them by extension from the existing phone system and have them dial extensions on the existing phone sytem).>From the documentation, it appears to be possible, but I have yet to findmore information on how to do it. Has anyone done this or something similar?
Implementing the dial plan you described is pretty straightforward. Integration with your existing voice mail system (Meridian Mail?) will be a lot harder. You may opt to use seperate voice mail systems, but exchanging messages between systems is currently not possible. If your current vm system supports AMIS, you may get your DTMF decoder out and start hacking :) Dylan. Ben Turner wrote:> Has anyone used * in conjunction with an existing phone system to add > certain features or to expand a department? Currently we have an > existing nortel phone system. We would like to have the * server > stand behind it and just handle VoIP services for our remote sales and > technical people. We would like them to act as normal extensions > (being able to dial them by extension from the existing phone system > and have them dial extensions on the existing phone sytem). > > > > From the documentation, it appears to be possible, but I have yet to > find more information on how to do it. Has anyone done this or > something similar? >