I'm investigating asterisk to use as a replacement for an aging Lucent PBX in our district office, as well as replacing the Centrex/intercom based systems at our schools. I'm curious if any other schools/districts are using asterisk? If so, I'd certainly be interested in talking about your setup. Thanks, -- Chris Hobbs Silver Valley Unified School District Head geek: Technology Services Coordinator webmaster: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/ postmaster: chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us pgp: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/key.asc
We are using Asterisk in K12 with similar goals. We have pretty much decided to go with it district wide. It will be a 200-400 phone installation across 9 sites. We also looking at eliminating a Centrex system (called Plexar in our area). Current status is that I have patched the * in front of our existing legacy system. This allowed testing of new phones while be got comfortable with * being stable, etc. Now I am just shopping for phones before we pull out the legacy system and start the process of moving schools off of the Centrax contract. Something you should look at in a school setting is the Wisip wireless 802.11b phone from Pulver. We are looking at this to help reduce cellular costs and also as a possible teacher phone. -- Jonathan Moore Director of Technology Winfield Public Schools Office 620.221.5100 Fax 620.221.0508 Quoting Chris Hobbs <chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us>:> I'm investigating asterisk to use as a replacement for an aging Lucent > PBX in our district office, as well as replacing the Centrex/intercom > based systems at our schools. > > I'm curious if any other schools/districts are using asterisk? If so, > I'd certainly be interested in talking about your setup. > > Thanks, > > -- > Chris Hobbs Silver Valley Unified School District > Head geek: Technology Services Coordinator > webmaster: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/ > postmaster: chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us > pgp: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/key.asc > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >Visit Winfield Public Schools at http://usd465.com ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Chris Hobbs wrote:>I'm investigating asterisk to use as a replacement for an aging Lucent >PBX in our district office, as well as replacing the Centrex/intercom >based systems at our schools. > >I'm curious if any other schools/districts are using asterisk? If so, >I'd certainly be interested in talking about your setup.Chris, We're in the process (final phase to be completed in the next two weeks) of replacing our AT&T/Lucent/Avaya solution at our high school. Over the summer, we hope to integrate/replace the PA/intercom system (Teltrend IV) to extend asterisk dialtone to the classrooms. Contact me off list and I'd be more than happy to talk with you about our progress, plans, and experiences. Steve
Chris, I read your message below, posted to the Asterisk-Users board. I don't represent or currently have a customer with an asterisk installation in a school district environment, but if you have any questions, I'd be happy to chat with you. I'm a network and asterisk private consultant. I've been developing asterisk based phone installations for 2 years. However any chat time is free as the information you provide me as to your needs and requirements outweighs any information I might share with you during the call. In the end if I am of any help and you look to get outside help for an installation should you choose to do one, I'd appreciate letting me bid on the project, but besides that, no strings attached to our conversations Thank you, On 11:21 AM 3/18/2004, Chris Hobbs wrote: >I'm investigating asterisk to use as a replacement for an aging Lucent >PBX in our district office, as well as replacing the Centrex/intercom >based systems at our schools. > >I'm curious if any other schools/districts are using asterisk? If so, >I'd certainly be interested in talking about your setup. > >Thanks, > >-- >Chris Hobbs Silver Valley Unified School District >Head geek: Technology Services Coordinator >webmaster: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/ >postmaster: chobbs@silvervalley.k12.ca.us >pgp: http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/~chobbs/key.asc Chris A. Icide 332 Valdez Ave. Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 650-712-8223 voice 650-712-8995 fax
Ack, sorry for the reply to the message board on my last reply to this topic, I forgot to replace the To: person. Thanks for the replies in advance telling me that that wasn't on topic, I consider myself in error, and offer the appropriate apology. -Chris