The place I currently work at has a Panasonic Key system with 9 extensions, and no voicemail. It services 2 PSTN lines. I am hoping to use Asterisk to host voicemail (I would like to use the IVR also, but I don't even know if or how it would work). Do I need to use a PRI between the two, or is there a simple solution? I would like people to be able to answer the phone and transfer the call to voicemail if the person is not there, or after so many rings, it goes right to voicemail. I'm not sure what is needed? I have seen the integration How-To but that requires the PRI, and wasn't sure if that was the ONLY way to go. Thanks! Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060530/97a51780/attachment.htm
> The place I currently work at has a Panasonic Key system with 9 extensions, > and no voicemail. It services 2 PSTN lines. > > > > I am hoping to use Asterisk to host voicemail (I would like to use the IVR > also, but I don't even know if or how it would work). > > > > Do I need to use a PRI between the two, or is there a simple solution? I > would like people to be able to answer the phone and transfer the call to > voicemail if the person is not there, or after so many rings, it goes right > to voicemail. I'm not sure what is needed? I have seen the integration > How-To but that requires the PRI, and wasn't sure if that was the ONLY way > to go.i don't think it's the only way. there is no logical difference between Zap/g0 (includes channel 1-15 of pri) than Zap/g0 (includes bri1-1 and bri1-2 to bri4-1 and bri4-2 if using bristuff) or NTPorts (includes port1,2,3,4 using mISDN) keep in mind, the cheapest FXS is a port ATA but if call-status is a must, and more than 8 channels, go for PRI -- WoodOO-[P]an[G]alaktikan[A]gent-People <][> http://shadow.pganet.com wpeople@shadow.pganet.com]iCQ#33118021[wpeople.on.iRCNet]wpeople@RedHat.users
You should use 2 FXO ports on asterisk to accomplish it, make sure the ports supports flash, otherwise you will have a hard time transferring back to the PBX. BTW, panasonic has one of the best documentation for foreign voicemail integration, just tell the panasonic PBX that you are using DTMF voicemail, and on what ports (usually 7 & 8) What Panasonic system is it? On 5/30/06, Chris Sutton <csutton@ruoktech.com> wrote:> > > > > The place I currently work at has a Panasonic Key system with 9 extensions, > and no voicemail. It services 2 PSTN lines. > > > > I am hoping to use Asterisk to host voicemail (I would like to use the IVR > also, but I don't even know if or how it would work). > > > > Do I need to use a PRI between the two, or is there a simple solution? I > would like people to be able to answer the phone and transfer the call to > voicemail if the person is not there, or after so many rings, it goes right > to voicemail. I'm not sure what is needed? I have seen the integration > How-To but that requires the PRI, and wasn't sure if that was the ONLY way > to go. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >
Hi C F, Thanks.. I was figuring something with FXO.. The Panasonic box we have Is a VB-42050 for System 824. The phone vendor told us we didn't have any ports open or something and would need to add something onto it (not sure what as I got this 3rd hand), hence the reason I want to use Asterisk as the Voicemail. So... the 2 ports I would use are the same types of ports that the phones themselves connect to? If I'm out of ports, can I remove 2 phones and use those to ports for the * box? Do you know where the documentation is that? Our vendor wouldn't help us (especially since I'm not using their voicemail system). Will the message waiting lights work at all with Asterisk on the Panasonic phones? And the last 2 questions I have (at least for the moment) are: 1) how do our employees transfer someone to the voicemail system (and can they go directly into a particular voicemail box or will it have to be a general one) and 2) do you have the commands I need to enter to tell the Panasonic system about the * box? Thank you again!!! Chris =============================================================== Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:36:23 -0400 From: "C F" <shmaltz@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Panasonic PBX To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Message-ID: <81000b5a0605301036s295d6445le583bec23bb427f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed You should use 2 FXO ports on asterisk to accomplish it, make sure the ports supports flash, otherwise you will have a hard time transferring back to the PBX. BTW, panasonic has one of the best documentation for foreign voicemail integration, just tell the panasonic PBX that you are using DTMF voicemail, and on what ports (usually 7 & 8) What Panasonic system is it? On 5/30/06, Chris Sutton <csutton@ruoktech.com> wrote:> > > > > The place I currently work at has a Panasonic Key system with 9extensions,> and no voicemail. It services 2 PSTN lines. > > > > I am hoping to use Asterisk to host voicemail (I would like to use the IVR > also, but I don't even know if or how it would work). > > > > Do I need to use a PRI between the two, or is there a simple solution? I > would like people to be able to answer the phone and transfer the call to > voicemail if the person is not there, or after so many rings, it goesright> to voicemail. I'm not sure what is needed? I have seen the integration > How-To but that requires the PRI, and wasn't sure if that was the ONLY way > to go. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Chris