Hi, My PBX/key system failed when building power was switched off and then back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so old that it is not repairable. The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline sets. There are voice mailboxes on each line. Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about $3800/yr. My 8 business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex increment would be about $480/yr. Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to $9K. My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? What type of telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be able to conference outside parties into a call? Would I have voice mail? Thanks for your help, Michael Welter
in my opinion, asterisk is the best solution. it is relatively very cheap, asterisk is free and u can use any soft phones to do calls. you can find cheap digium cards, around $400+. you can set up any normal phone to FXS cards. yu can do conference call and voicemails in asterisk. this link may be helpful to read though there are lots of it out there http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk?PHPSESSID=736cb8758a4bc846654fd36e33ead8eb --- Michael Welter <mike@introspect.com> wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was > switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so > old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline > sets. There are > voice mailboxes on each line. > > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about > $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex > increment would be > about $480/yr. > > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to > $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? > What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be > able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice > mail? > > Thanks for your help, > Michael Welter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ====Designs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
in my opinion, asterisk is the best solution. it is relatively very cheap, asterisk is free and u can use any soft phones to do calls. you can find cheap digium cards, around $400+. you can set up any normal phone to FXS cards. yu can do conference call and voicemails in asterisk. this link may be helpful to read though there are lots of it out there http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk?PHPSESSID=736cb8758a4bc846654fd36e33ead8eb --- Michael Welter <mike@introspect.com> wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was > switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so > old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline > sets. There are > voice mailboxes on each line. > > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about > $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex > increment would be > about $480/yr. > > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to > $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? > What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be > able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice > mail? > > Thanks for your help, > Michael Welter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ====Designs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
in my opinion, asterisk is the best solution. it is relatively very cheap, asterisk is free and u can use any soft phones to do calls. you can find cheap digium cards, around $400+. you can set up any normal phone to FXS cards. yu can do conference call and voicemails in asterisk. this link may be helpful to read though there are lots of it out there http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk?PHPSESSID=736cb8758a4bc846654fd36e33ead8eb --- Michael Welter <mike@introspect.com> wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was > switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so > old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline > sets. There are > voice mailboxes on each line. > > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about > $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex > increment would be > about $480/yr. > > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to > $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? > What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be > able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice > mail? > > Thanks for your help, > Michael Welter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com >http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ====Designs __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:52, Michael Welter wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline sets. There are > voice mailboxes on each line. > > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex increment would be > about $480/yr. > > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice mail? > > Thanks for your help, > Michael Welter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:52, Michael Welter wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline sets. There are > voice mailboxes on each line. > > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex increment would be > about $480/yr. > > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice mail?Sorry for the last empty message, don't know if I was able to delete it from my outbox quick enough. Anyways, we discussed pricing recently. Your price for lines is pretty nice. You probably couldn't justify the extra cost of switching to T1 or PRI as the loop itself would cost a little more than you currently are paying. So now you have to figure out how to deal with these lines. You will have to decide whether or not you want IP phones, or analog phones. Either way, you probably are looking at a channel bank and a T1 card to get the 8 lines into a single asterisk machine. 8x12 would fit on a Zhone, but you have to know that the zhone doesn't pass callerid on the FXO ports. You could go with just about any modular channel bank that supports FXO ports. Look at the Adtrans or Adit lines. So for an analog system you are looking at $500 PC $500 T100P card $500 or so for a channel bank of of ebay. $30x12 for phones. or approximately $1860 if you get lucky on ebay. On a purely money view point, if you don't for see growth in the number of lines into your office, you won't see the break even of asterisk for about 4 years over the Centrex lines. Of course you can assign value to having your own machine in house, and the VoIP possibilities, and you can claim break even in a shorter term. Don't take this as downing asterisk, I love it. I just wanted to cut to the dollars since you have placed them on the table. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:52:13AM -0700, Michael Welter wrote:> Hi, > > My PBX/key system failed when building power was switched off and then > back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so old that it is not > repairable. > > The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline sets. There areI have a client running 9 incomming PRI lines with their 768K internet all on one T-1. Works very well. I have another client with 4 pots lines. Works OK, but you have some problems with call detection.> voice mailboxes on each line.Voice mail is excellent with Asterisk. Very flexible.> > Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about $3800/yr. My 8 > business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex increment would be > about $480/yr.With Asterisk you would be looking at an initial fixed price investment and about 20% of that per year for support. The cost for pots lines vs. T1 for the PBX would be about the same. You would need to check with LECs and CLECs to determine the most economical way to deliver the PSTN services to your office.> > Purchasing a new PBX would run anywhere from $4K to $9K. > > My questions are: should I be considering Asterisk? What type of > telephone set could I use with Asterisk? Would I be able to conference > outside parties into a call? Would I have voice mail?Absolutely consider Asterisk. You can use standard POTs style phones, some ADSI phones and SIP phones. The Cisco 7960 is very nice. You can set up Meetme conferences and you can conference many incoming calls to the same connection. If you have VoIP channels you could conference them in as well. The client I mentioned above using the T1 PRI does depositions on the conferences. We've had conferences up for 7 hours! Yes, Voicemail is very good and flexible.>Walker -- ******** DataCrest, Inc. -- Technically Superior ****************** Walker Haddock http://www.datacrest.com DataCrest, Inc. e-mail: wh@datacrest.com 1634A Montgomery Hwy. phone: 1-888-941-3282, 1-205-335-8589 Birmingham, AL 35216 fax: 1-205-823-7838 ***********************************************************************
what i have at present is asterisk installed on fedora core 3, with a dev kit with 1 fxo and 1fxs module and a TE110p card, using the sample files i can dial asterisk using the dev kit and get the asterisk welcome and congratulations message i have got the zaptel.conf conigured as follows fxoks=1 fxsks=4 span=1,1,0,ccs,hdb3,crc4 bchan=5-19,21-35 dchan=20 loadzone=nl defaultzone=nl the zapata.conf as follows [channels] language=nl context=default usecallerid=yes hidecallerid=no callwaiting=yes callwaitinguserid=yes threewaycalling=yes echocancel=yes echocancelwhenbridged=no rxgain=0.0 txgain=0.0 group=1 callgroup=1 pickupgroup=1 immediate=no callerid=206388230 busydetect=no callprogress=no musiconhold=default signalling=fxo_ks channel => 1 signalling fxs_ks channel => 4 what i want to be able to do is this have 5 incomming numbers over the pri(e1) lines and also dialing out over whichever line is available on the pri(e1) line. i would like to know 1/ how do you setup your zapata.conf file for 2 cards??? as i have 1 dev kit and 1 te110p card 2/ how do i get asterisk to detect what number has ben dialled by the outside caller and route it to the appropriate extension, if no answer after 10 seconds ring all the other phones and if no answer after that go to voicemail? and allow other users to pick up someone elses phone from their extension. user1 0031204161092 (full international number) 0204161092 (number as dialled from the netherlands) 4161092 (number as dialled from amsterdam) user2 0031204161091 (full international number) 0204161091 (number as dialled from the netherlands) 4161091 (number as dialled from amsterdam) user3 0031204161093 (full international number) 0204161093 (number as dialled from the netherlands) 4161091 (number as dialled from amsterdam) user4 0031204161094 (full international number) 0204161094 (number as dialled from the netherlands) 4161091 (number as dialled from amsterdam) 3/ how do i record calls and set them to a file in the format <extensionnmr><date><time>.mp3 I know its a lot to ask but once i get it up and running i intend on providing a step by step method of how i installed it from installing fdc3 to up and running so will help many others too so please help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050520/662d0442/attachment.htm
Hello, i`m carlos, i`m just begining to use Asterisk at Home, so i have learned to configure a several extensions, but now i have a FXO target and i wanna to connect to PSTN, but i dunno how to do. i`d like to receive support from you...thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20051010/929da5d5/attachment.htm