RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Wieling
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 09:09, Mark Spencer wrote: It bugs me not having intercom/paging features. It also bugs me not being able to look at my phones to see who's on/off. You can do overhead paging and even stream mp3's using nbsd Cool! Uh, what's nbsd? -- BTEL Consulting 850-484-4535

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-25 Thread John Schmerold
of the office. Gene Kochanowsky wrote: What is overhead paging and how is it done with asterisk? Gene -Original Message- From: Mark Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Lane
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Schmerold Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use? *'s paging solution is a bad solution in light of today's phone systems. If you need

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-25 Thread Ray Burkholder
The Cisco SIP phones have a second voice channel available for a paging type of implementation. Now the problem is simply of finding someone and some time to see if it can be made to work with Asterisk. Ray Burkholder One Unified 519 570 0689 x2002 *'s paging solution is a bad solution in

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-25 Thread John Todd
The Cisco SIP phones have a second voice channel available for a paging type of implementation. Now the problem is simply of finding someone and some time to see if it can be made to work with Asterisk. Ray Burkholder One Unified 519 570 0689 x2002 *'s paging solution is a bad solution in light

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-21 Thread Adam Goryachev
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Scott Lambert wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:13:07PM -0500, Dave Weis wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mike Ciholas wrote: I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-21 Thread James H. Thompson
. Jim James H. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Mike Ciholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use? On Wed, 20 Aug 2003

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-21 Thread James H. Thompson
systems. Jim James H. Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Mike Ciholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:42 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use? Okay, I am facing a move in two months to newly

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-21 Thread Gene Kochanowsky
: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use? One thing that PBX systems do well that VOIP systems mostly don't do at all well is support handsfree intercom/paging functions. Some phone systems will even let you page to an in-use extentsion. So if you depend on these kinds of functions, it may

[Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Mike Ciholas
Okay, I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to move and expand our traditional PBX (Panasonic KX-TD1232 and VPS200). or B) Pull only LAN cables, go VoIP, use Asterisk as PBX. It is *not* an

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Ernest W. Lessenger
At 10:42 AM 8/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: I've literally read the last year's worth of posts to asterisk-users to get a feel for the situation. Since you don't see posts of the form installed it, just working, no problems very often, you could get the opinion that everyone has problems since that

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread WipeOut .
Okay, I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to move and expand our traditional PBX (Panasonic KX-TD1232 and VPS200). or B) Pull only LAN cables, go VoIP, use Asterisk as PBX. It

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Brian West
astman or gastman would tell you this info. And yes we us it in production right now. Works better than anything we have had previously. bkw On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: At 10:42 AM 8/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: I've literally read the last year's worth of posts to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Brian West
Or you can jump on #asterisk bkw On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, John Brown wrote: We are getting ready to replace our old Panasonic PBX with an Asterisk system. I'd say its ready for prime time. THe other thing is to have a good consultant in your back pocket for those now how do I do this. I can

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Dave Weis
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mike Ciholas wrote: I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to move and expand our traditional PBX (Panasonic KX-TD1232 and VPS200). or B) Pull only LAN cables, go VoIP, use

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Anton Tinchev
Mike Ciholas wrote: Okay, I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to move and expand our traditional PBX (Panasonic KX-TD1232 and VPS200). or B) Pull only LAN cables, go VoIP, use

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread TC
I'm in almost the same situation as you. However, I'm mostly worried that the customer service desk here will start to complain that they can't tell how many calls are in the queue any more (our current phone tells us how many calls are ringing, on hold, etc). yea we ran into that as well, we used

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Scott Lambert
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:13:07PM -0500, Dave Weis wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Mike Ciholas wrote: I am facing a move in two months to newly renovated space. I have to decide *this week* between: A) Pull LAN and phone cables, prepare to move and expand our traditional PBX (Panasonic

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is Asterisk ready for real use?

2003-08-20 Thread Chris Albertson
As for cables. Pull ONLY Cat5 or Cat5e as they can be used for either Ethernet OR voice. You can then use a plug pannel in the phone closet to route a spicif cable to either a voice or data switch. Is Asterick ready?? I'd say the software is but ONLY IF 1) You or someone you can depend on