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Anyone tried this, I put in an Asterisk/FreePBX phone system to replace one of those el cheapo Bizfon analog key systems. The Bizfon was able to do follow me to analog lines but I do not believe the capability is in Asterisk. Of course now it becomes the one feature they cannot do without. Somehow the Bizfon is able to detect if an analog line is answered (without answer supervision). If not

I am not sure if this is really possible but I figured I would ask anyway. I have a customer who wants an asterisk system. Currently they have a BizFon system. The feature that he really wants is to be able to pick up any line and have all the stations show up on his phone. Is this possible in asterisk? If so can someone point me in the right direction? Sean

I am almost done with my initial configuration of asterisk. One of the things which our BizFone does and I have not been able to emulate with asterisk is the ability to grab a ringing extension. e.g. I am talking to someone in an office with extension 204. I can hear a phone ringing and I know it's mine (extension 201). I want to be able to answer that extension from 204. What appl...

We are going to replace a BizFone with Asterisk and one of the features that I haven't been able to emulate is the PBX hold. We can put a call into hold with the * key and every 30 sec the phone gets a beep to remind us it is there and the caller on hold can hit # for other options. The closest I've come with Asterisk...

So are there any plans for bridged line appearance support in Asterisk? The new Linksys SPA9000 supports it. A lot of other VoIP systems from Nortel, Sylantro etc. supposedly support it. Seems to me that Asterisk needs to get on the bandwagon or be relegated to call centers, specialized voicemail applications, and phone chat businesses. It's not needed for companies used to PBX's but