[asterisk-biz] asterisk-biz] Calling Card Hybrid

Fri Sep 7 21:34:18 CDT 2007



>From: "Craig Lawrence" <craig at mytel.net.au>
>Reply-To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk 
>Discussion<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk 
>Discussion"<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] asterisk-biz] Calling Card Hybrid
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:49:19 +1000
>
>Yes,
>
>Enswitch would work well however the pricing starts at $3000 per quarter
>just for the software.  The customer isn't going to accept that on a PBX
>that would probably only ever do up to 10 concurrent calls.
>
>Enswitch is more a small scale service provider platform than a normal
>PBX.
>
>Thanks anyway
>
>
>Craig Lawrence
>
>
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>[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Senad
>Jordanovic
>Sent: Saturday, 8 September 2007 12:00 AM
>To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'
>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] asterisk-biz] Calling Card Hybrid
>
>Dovid Bender wrote:
> > Try Enswitch (Integrics.com). It can do all that.
>
>So can Bicom Systems, PBXware.
>
>
>Senad
>
>
>
> >
> >>
> >> Message: 7
> >> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:00:30 +1000
> >> From: "Craig Lawrence" <craig at mytel.net.au>
> >> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Calling Card Hybrid
> >> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> >> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
> >> Message-ID: <087E9C1325305D4EBC6F82C02EDFA02204DB6F at gelf.mytel.local>
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> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Here's a challenge for you:
> >>
> >> - A mining company setting up a mine in outback Australia
> >> - 70 rooms for miners accommodation with an IP phone in each
> >> - 25 phones in offices in and around the plant
> >> - need a system that is similar to a calling card system for the
> >> miners
> >> - need a standard PBX system for the office workers
> >> - both systems should reside in the same server
> >> - the PBX should allow miners to call other miners in the
> >> accommodation or call to or from office phones to accommodation
> >> - miners are not permitted to call outside the internal extensions
> >> from their accommodation handsets however if they dial into a calling
> >> card extension they should be asked for their PIN number and then be
> >> provided with a outbound dial tone. They should also be able to
> >> check account balances. - A billing system is required that will
> >> permit the mine management to charge for each destination as they
> >> choose either as an untimed call or timed. They also need to be able
> >> to give the miners a free account balance of say $50 per month as
> >> part of the mine employment terms. The credit should expire at the
> >> end of the month, at which time it will automatically top-up to say
> >> $50. - Miners are to have DIDs for incoming calls in the
> >> accommodation with a voicemail system enabled on the phone as a
> >> message waiting indicator light (ie not via email) and they should
> >> be able to record a greeting, re-record the greeting, etc and dial
> >> into and listen to messages, replay and delete messages. - If an
> >> office phone was to dial the outside world and transfer the call to
> >> a room the miner would avoid payment - the customer is aware of this
> >> and accepts this deficiency. - each miner is to be given a "card"
> >> with his User Number on it and instructions for usage and voicemail
> >> on the reverse.  The card will also tell the miner how to log into
> >> the system and change their password (default password is to be the
> >> digits from his or her birth date eg 21/04/75). This instruction
> >> card is to be laminated and handed to the miner when he arrives at
> >> the mine. - the management interface should allow the mine
> >> administration to delete a miner account, add an account, view each
> >> miners account balance, view past calls (and print if needed), add
> >> once off call credit (if the miner wants to purchase more call
> >> credit), reset a password and view from which extension the calls
> >> were made.
> >>
> >> Would anyone have any suggestion of a product that would do most or
> >> all of the above?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >> Craig Lawrence
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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