On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:42:06PM +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote: > can i use VOIP without internet? is it possible to use VOIP only in > LAN and no gatekeeper?
This has been mentioned on the list before, but Asterisk can handle traditional phone lines, digital phone lines (we call it T1 here, not sure about in ROP), and VOIP. In other words, you can bring regular phone lines in to an Asterisk machine and use VOIP locally for your desk phones. There are a number of fairly cheap VOIP phones that you can buy which even let you plug your computer into the phone so that you don't have to run another ethernet cable to each desk. Anyway, in such a setup your internal calls are all VOIP, but Asterisk can handle putting a call outside the organization. In my setup, which is quite small (two extensions), I use a traditional phone line to handle local outbound calls, but use VOIP over the internet for any long-distance calls. All inbound calls are routed over the internet. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
