Hi, This may be a dumb question but I know how to provision lines but what is the use for them. Right now I just have one line provisioned on my cisco 7690 and I get all incoming calls on that line and make calls on that too. Additional lines may be mean additional extension numbers. But then why would a person want to have six different extensions and remember them all. One feature I could think off is 1.) To have a second line as auto-answer for paging, etc. Please don't flame me. Just getting into PBX's and haven't had much experience with them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050423/41a7a17f/attachment.htm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Manjit Riat wrote:> Hi, > > This may be a dumb question but I know how to provision lines but > what is the use for them. Right now I just have one line provisioned on > my cisco 7690 and I get all incoming calls on that line and make calls > on that too. Additional lines may be mean additional extension numbers. > But then why would a person want to have six different extensions and > remember them all. > > > > One feature I could think off is > > 1.) To have a second line as auto-answer for paging, etc. > > > > Please don?t flame me. Just getting into PBX?s and haven?t had much > experience with them.2.) Registering the phone with more than one server (possibly in different parts of the world). 3.) Different caller IDs Personally, I use the extra line buttons as speed dials. - -- Ron Wellsted http://www.wellsted.org.uk ron@wellsted.org.uk FWD:519961 Gossiptel:9309811 N 52.567623, W 2.137621 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBQmqpn0tP/KMNOfRbAQIxLAgAsx6pyAHjOOBWY6I6B+THNF3wjju5BsMe sSQFAV5oacuFxIjt+ai03fhQKOeno8nnpOJ7udvpNzss6EUiZl3VRLfjUUiGZGX5 07+v9NeLWnjQM8lt4ndJh+BLbYgMBihgG61dJF0h2a5UIc3ms7s0Qm82YOz2+yXt 1zJh1BYZECTdTs9NHQCtBsDoxE8JWiaRN+pJRe5A38YDcnalsZf0JDK08dBxXwhh 3rXU56TTyJTKuwIsd7TCjG4zSdibdB52lC2y2wGBd869Xfekn4NpWH2KfsItyxWV KTbsFNlfE850OiqAOnwW32FH6kktPlNUMD4kpd3L9PFp1Xav64w8zA==MVRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 02:07 PM 4/23/2005, you wrote:>Hi, > This may be a dumb question but I know how to provision lines but what > is the use for them. Right now I just have one line provisioned on my > cisco 7690 and I get all incoming calls on that line and make calls on > that too. Additional lines may be mean additional extension numbers. But > then why would a person want to have six different extensions and > remember them all. > >One feature I could think off is >1.) To have a second line as auto-answer for paging, etc. > >Please don't flame me. Just getting into PBX's and haven't had much >experience with them.Same extension but using call waiting... So when your girlfriend calls while you are talking on the phone, you can see the incoming call and callerID, and then either ignore it and let it bounce to vmail or put your wife on hold and take the call from your girlfriend. It really depends on your relationships. Tom
I don't know about other phones but on the Sipura, I set all the lines to the same extension and incoming calls rollover on to the next line appearance. Hence, I can hold one and take the next call, switch back and forth easily, works great. Another reason would be to have more than one incoming DID, to make sure they were answered even if you were on the phone, you would see that you had a call on DID2 and wouold put the first on hold to answer the second. You might want to have a internal only extension. Chris Mason www.anguillaguide.com _____ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Manjit Riat Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:08 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Provisioning Lines Hi, This may be a dumb question but I know how to provision lines but what is the use for them. Right now I just have one line provisioned on my cisco 7690 and I get all incoming calls on that line and make calls on that too. Additional lines may be mean additional extension numbers. But then why would a person want to have six different extensions and remember them all. One feature I could think off is 1.) To have a second line as auto-answer for paging, etc. Please don't flame me. Just getting into PBX's and haven't had much experience with them. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20050423/df71df4d/attachment.htm