On Friday 17 December 2004 21:00, Patrick Campbell wrote: > I am looking to help out my company find a more budget conscious but > reliable way to hold conference calls between 5+ people. 4x a month we > hold several hour long conference calls during non-business hours. All of > the employees have high speed internet. Currently we dial up an AT&T conf > using regular analog phones. > > I don't have a great grasp as to what Asterisk is capable of, but my > thoughts were that perhaps with VoIP telephone lines (either hooked up to > the company's network or just using a 3rd party VoIP provider such as > Packet8, which is whatI have for personal use) and an Asterisk server, that > we could setup a VoIP conference bridge.
"meetme" is what you want. > Can someone enlighten an unknowledged as to whether or not this is > possible, and if so, how might it be done? Would the Asterisk server need > X number of VoIP lines? I.e. If there's 10 participants, it'd need 10 VoIP > lines? There isn't really a concept of VoIP "lines" - each remote participant just comes in to the Asterisk server on your normal Internet connection - they each need their own SIP phone, of course, and they each need to have an Internet link, but as far as Asterisk is concerned, it just needs a connection with sufficient bandwidth to handle the total number of conference subscribers. Antony. -- There are two possible outcomes: If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. - Enrico Fermi Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users