Chad Whitten
2004-Jun-16 06:53 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] replacing cisco callmanager with asterisk?
ive had enough of cisco unity and microsoft exchange and im looking for alternatives to our voip system. right now, we have 3 cisco callmanagers, 1 cisco ip icd system, and 1 cisco unity voicemail system. all phones are cisco 7940/7960's and some ata186/188's. voice gateways are cisco vg200's with pri cards (5 total). im running h323 on the gateways and phones are of course using the cisco skinny protocol. there are about 300 phones on this system scattered across 12 different locations. i have some xml services configured on the phones (rss newsfeeds, phonebook, etc). getting sip images for the phones will be no problem. i have 4 good machines i could use for the asterisk pbx (dell's with 512 meg of ram, p3 900 mhz procs) and ive got a good bit of linux experience (all our other servers are linux, only the cisco callmanagers run win2k here). the feature list for asterisk is pretty much in line with what we get with callmanager - call waiting, transfer, park, conference, hold, pickup, DID, etc. my main questions are the gateways - will those work with asterisk? the vg200 supports h323 and mgcp. i would rather use mgcp even though im not using it now. also, what about the acd functionality of asterisk? we have two acd groups now with at most 5 members in each logged in at a given time. call distribution is round robin and cisco does have some nice call reporting features with the icd software. -- Chad Whitten Network/Systems Administrator cwhitten@nexband.com 601-944-4801 Phone
Kubat, Philip
2004-Jun-16 09:37 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] replacing cisco callmanager with asterisk?
I was able to get vg200 (pots) no pris to work with Asterisk. I was unable to get mgcp to work correctly. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Chad Whitten Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 9:54 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] replacing cisco callmanager with asterisk? ive had enough of cisco unity and microsoft exchange and im looking for alternatives to our voip system. right now, we have 3 cisco callmanagers, 1 cisco ip icd system, and 1 cisco unity voicemail system. all phones are cisco 7940/7960's and some ata186/188's. voice gateways are cisco vg200's with pri cards (5 total). im running h323 on the gateways and phones are of course using the cisco skinny protocol. there are about 300 phones on this system scattered across 12 different locations. i have some xml services configured on the phones (rss newsfeeds, phonebook, etc). getting sip images for the phones will be no problem. i have 4 good machines i could use for the asterisk pbx (dell's with 512 meg of ram, p3 900 mhz procs) and ive got a good bit of linux experience (all our other servers are linux, only the cisco callmanagers run win2k here). the feature list for asterisk is pretty much in line with what we get with callmanager - call waiting, transfer, park, conference, hold, pickup, DID, etc. my main questions are the gateways - will those work with asterisk? the vg200 supports h323 and mgcp. i would rather use mgcp even though im not using it now. also, what about the acd functionality of asterisk? we have two acd groups now with at most 5 members in each logged in at a given time. call distribution is round robin and cisco does have some nice call reporting features with the icd software. -- Chad Whitten Network/Systems Administrator cwhitten@nexband.com 601-944-4801 Phone _______________________________________________ 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