asterisk users - Feb 2011 - Newbie´s question about Asterisk...

Hi, My name is Francisco from M?xico.

Here, in my work we have a very very old panasonic PBX(12 years old). We are
growing and we need to increase our external lines(from 3 to 4) and our
internal lines(from 6 to 10). Besides we need voice mail and voice menu too.


We asked for a quote to our panasonic dealer. The whole thing cost about
4,500 dollars.

My boss just saw a thing called Asterisk this morning looking for options in
Google. He asked my to investigate what this thing called Asterisk is and if
we could save some money using it instead of the panasonic solution. So,
here I am.

I have some experience as linux sysadmin(we have 1 oracle linux server and 1
linux print server) nevertheless I don?t have any idea where and how to
start this evaluation?


Please
Would you give us a clue where to see If Asterisk could work for us?

Thanks for your kind help.
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If you already have experience with linux asterisk will be easy for you.

 

Other people will reply with official links but here is how I use Asterisk in my
small home office www.cognation.net/asterisk

 

 

Cheers,

Dean

 

 

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces
at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Javier Cintr?n Olgu?n
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:26 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [asterisk-users] Newbie?s question about Asterisk...

 

Hi, My name is Francisco from M?xico. 

Here, in my work we have a very very old panasonic PBX(12 years old). We are
growing and we need to increase our external lines(from 3 to 4) and our internal
lines(from 6 to 10). Besides we need voice mail and voice menu too.

We asked for a quote to our panasonic dealer. The whole thing cost about 4,500
dollars.

My boss just saw a thing called Asterisk this morning looking for options in
Google. He asked my to investigate what this thing called Asterisk is and if we
could save some money using it instead of the panasonic solution. So, here I am.

I have some experience as linux sysadmin(we have 1 oracle linux server and 1
linux print server) nevertheless I don?t have any idea where and how to start
this evaluation?


Please
Would you give us a clue where to see If Asterisk could work for us?

Thanks for your kind help. 

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I think I have 3 PSTN lines because I can connect a normal telephone to them
all and make calls between each of them.
We have 5 normal telephones and 1 panasonic.

I think I have 3 PSTN lines because I can connect a normal telephone to them
all and make calls between each of them.
We have 5 normal telephones and 1 panasonic.

Yes, use a FXO device, like the AudioCodes MP-114.  It is an external gateway
that will allow you to interface your PSTN lines to Asterisk via IP.  There are
other brands out there but in my line of business we only use AudioCodes.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com on behalf of Francisco Javier
Cintr?n Olgu?n
Sent: Fri 2/18/2011 12:09 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users]Newbie?s question about Asterisk...


Is there another way to interface to 3 external and 6 internal lines??

Thank you for your kind help


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