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I haven't dealt with Centrex for a long time, and one of my customers is being courted heavily by a Sprint salesperson. Am I not correct in assuming that each "line" of Centrex corresponds to an "extension" in the PBX world? This site has 2 POTS lines and 5 extensions, and they told me that for the same thing they're paying right now (~$40/POTS line) they will be

Hello all, I've got myself into a bizzare situation that I can't seem to get myself out of... Was wondering if anyone had some advice that might get me 'over the hill' on this... Some background: PBX consists of an Asterisk box (running TrixBox), 4 Cisco 7960's, 2 Polycom IP500's, and now an additional Cisco 7960. The phones are all on a separate LAN. There is

Hi, My PBX/key system failed when building power was switched off and then back on. The service rep says the PBX unit is so old that it is not repairable. The unit has 8 incoming POTS lines and 12 multiline sets. There are voice mailboxes on each line. Switching to Qwest's Centrex system would cost about $3800/yr. My 8 business lines now cost $3320/yr, so the Centrex increment would

Hi, I'm looking at setting up an Asterisk PBX in our office, which gets its phone lines (digital signaling, analog voice) from the main campus, which uses Centrex. Does anyone know if this falls under analog or digital for hardware buying? I was looking at getting a Digium TDM-series, but apparently our lines aren't pots (due to the digital signaling). Could someone enlighten me a bit?

Hi guys, I posted a somewhat similar question about a month ago and got a thoughtful resonse from Steven Critchfield, but I've got a quick follow up question to it. I'm looking to setup a 16 extension / 10-14 phone line Asterisk install for a customer who would like to have DID numbers for the extensions, since they're currently on Centrex and already have the 1-to-1

Message: 5 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com From: Doug Meredith <doug.meredith@skyridge.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:05:19 -0400 Organization: Skyridge Systems Inc. Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: What technology could my phone company be using? Reply-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com >>Mark Hazlewood <lists@idontknow.com> wrote: >>Sounds like Centrex services, we

Hello all, Normally I just use pri's with our asterisk systems, but a request came in to add some normal pots lines to the setup. We have 3 lines, and they run into the fxs ports. They hit the dialplan just fine, and they always dial the "s" extension. However, my question would be... Is there a way to determine what number was dialed and have it forward to a specific phone? With a

I recently dug into this, from what I've seen, the best bang for the buck out there is going to be Polycom's. A local vendor has Polycom IP500 phones for $174 shipped to me. IP500 would be comparable to a 7940G I'm assuming. I ran into the same problem with pricing, don't want grandstreams, but can't afford the nice Ciscos. Check out the Polycom's. -Tim -----Original

Hello, I had a partner of mine present a Centrex 21 brochure and ask how many of those features can I fulfill. There is nothing out of the ordinary, it's stuff like call hold, call forward, 3-way calling, etc. Has anyone assembled a how-to that shows how to configure PBX or Centrex type functionality? I found one in the voip-info wiki but only a couple of topics were filled out. Regards,

anyone know of a solution where mobile handsets out roaming the pstn cellular network can be used and treated as full fleged centrex extentions, i.e. I can transfer a call that comes in on a wired centrex copper pair out to a cell phone and the cell phone can transfer the call back or vice versa where the cell phone recieves the call directly and can transfer to the office all without hairpinning

The benefits of * are obvious so that part of the marketing an * solution is easy. Anybody care to share ideas on how to target companies who would benefit most from */Digium? It seems to me that it would be an easy sell to small/medium companies who need advanced features such as ip trunking, IVR, Conference bridging, etc., etc. I would like to find a way to identify multi-location companies

Greetings, List. I have my Asterisk box setup with 8 Centrex lines that were "left over" from our old PBX system. My boss is asking me to set up Asterisk so that he can flash hook and make an outgoing call on the same line to have a 3 way call. This is what he wants to do: 1) Incoming call on his Centrex line 2) Flash hook and dial a new number (goes out the same line) 3) Flash

Does anyone know what would be involved in making Asterisk work as a voicemail system in a Centrex environment? We have a Centrigram voicemail system that belongs in the Smithsonian. There are analog lines coming into the box and a 56KB data feed from the phone company's switch. Peter

For whatever reason I decided to implement the validator class tonight. It''s my first go at implementing the class. My first run at it looked pretty good. I just added a generic .i for it and it all compiled. Sadly, the samples didn''t work because the base Validator class can''t actually be used as a validator! You have to derive from GenericValidator. I

The file swig/classes/includes/wxLayoutConstraints.h may need to be updated. It''s missing centreX and centreY from the list of wxIndividualLayoutConstraints. I''d send a patch in but I''m wondering if this file just needs to be regenerated from scratch. Roy

Hi All, Got a strange (at least IMHO) issue that doesn't make much sense to me. Basic configuration is two sites with a site-to-site (aka router-to-router) VPN. Both sites have Cisco 7961G phones [with SIP firmware] on users' desks, and the only VoIP is internal - all of our outward telecom is on POTS or Centrex-enabled POTS lines. Site 1 has a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with Asterisk built

Hello, I've been planning to replace my aging CENTREX switch with a new PBX and am seriously considering Asterisk as my solution. I work at a college, and we currently support just under 300 regular analog lines to the offices and whatnot. I was wondering.. Is asterisk ready for such a job? Would I be making a mistake to deploy this across the campus at this time? It seems that

I live in New Brunswick Canada. The phone company is Aliant. When you set up business service here, you can go with either analog or digital lines. This isn't a T1 or ISDN. They are talking individual lines direct to handsets that they provide. They offer the digital option with even very small ( 2 - 4) number of lines. What technology could this be? Is there any way to connect such a

Thought I would share this with you guys, it brought a smile to my face this morning... So, I work for a quick American company who I won''t name, and for the past few months I have been pushing to use AJAX in some of our Web applications. This looks like its finally happening, and we are using it in an upcoming project. There was a meeting about it yesterday, which unfortunately I

Kevin, Are you in the US? If so then you've probably got several carriers to choose from. In my experience analog lines have a flat expense of $20-$25 per month. That equates to about $140-$175 per month in flat fees, plus you have usage on top of that. (Your experience may vary.) I am currently experimenting with a company out of NY called Digizip (www.digizip.com) that sold me a Qwest