asterisk users - Dec 2004 - Comdial PBX -- can use Asterisk as VM box?

Hi!  I've got a Comdial PBX that I would dearly love to replace with an
Asterisk box.  However, for various reasons, it appears not to be in the
cards.  Regardless of what management does, or does not, want, our
current VM solution -- some Dialogic card with a "KeyVoice"
application
-- is dying.  I'm 90% sure it's hardware.  I'd rather shoot myself
than
replace the hardware.  Is there any way to get Asterisk to respond to
whatever mechanism it is that the Comdial puts out to the Dialogic?
Things I've already tried and discarded:

DID: the PBX strips off the DID stuff before it gets to the Asterisk box
Caller ID: ibid.

So, I'm guessing that there's some, for lack of a better word, protocol
that must be standardized to some extent, that allows things like the
Comdial PBX to talk to someone else's VM solution.  Can Asterisk play ball?

Thanks!

-Ken

On Dec 7, 2004, at 8:48 AM, asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com 
wrote:
ken ,

i too have a comdial analog pbx.  i'm running a seperate vm system and 
would like to migrate to asterisk.  right now, my comdial

hands off calls via serial connections to my vm box.  i don't really 
know what i'm talking about, but i'd like to find a solution whereby i 
could accept the T1s (2 in my case) to an asterisk server, route calls 
to vm as necessary and then hand station calls out to my existing PBX.  
some clients could be converted over to new IP phones or software based 
phones (customer service, if quality is good enough) and some clients 
would remain analog.

if anyone is doing this (or a similar but proven and technically 
correct workflow) let me know.


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> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:50:54 -0500
> From: Ken D'Ambrosio <ken@jots.org>
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Comdial PBX -- can use Asterisk as VM box?
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> Hi!  I've got a Comdial PBX that I would dearly love to replace with an
> Asterisk box.  However, for various reasons, it appears not to be in 
> the
> cards.  Regardless of what management does, or does not, want, our
> current VM solution -- some Dialogic card with a "KeyVoice"
application
> -- is dying.  I'm 90% sure it's hardware.  I'd rather shoot
myself than
> replace the hardware.  Is there any way to get Asterisk to respond to
> whatever mechanism it is that the Comdial puts out to the Dialogic?
> Things I've already tried and discarded:
>
> DID: the PBX strips off the DID stuff before it gets to the Asterisk 
> box
> Caller ID: ibid.
>
> So, I'm guessing that there's some, for lack of a better word,
protocol
> that must be standardized to some extent, that allows things like the
> Comdial PBX to talk to someone else's VM solution.  Can Asterisk play 
> ball?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
>