[asterisk-biz] need a phone system suggestion

[David Gibbons]

I would do ATAs connected to walmart wireless handsets for wireless phones.
Seems cheaper/easier.

Sounds like a cool deployment and I agree with Fred -- this sounds like the
perfect application of *, rather than overkill.

Best,
Dave

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Robert Rothberg <rrothberg at gmail.com>wrote:

> Because they really don't need any of the feature set and my hope is that
> they won't need to come to me for questions/admin/maintenance.  I'd prefer
> to give them something I can walk away from and will have very minimal set
> up time.  I'm also not sure about wireless endpoints being I usually use
> Polycom 550s.  I could throw a sipura I have in the basement onto a wireless
> base station which would make all the DECT phones a single extension.
>
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Fred Posner <fred at teamforrest.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Robert Rothberg wrote:
>>
>> > Hello all, normally I pitch Asterisk based solutions but I think for
>> this particular case, it would be overkill.  My son's school (45 students
>> total for grades 1-8, so very small, very limited budget) just added some
>> office space across the street from the school.  I have set up wireless
>> networking between the two locations.
>> > They now would like a phone system that supports the following:
>> >
>> > non POTS solution
>> > supports two lines outgoing
>> > supports two lines incoming
>> > allows transfer of calls between extensions
>> > if nobody answers transfer, VM picks up
>> > wireless extensions (up to 4)
>> > intercom type paging between extensions (would be nice, but not
>> mandatory)
>> >
>> > I thought about OOMA, but the range would be too far for handsets in one
>> location to reach the Telo device in the other location (there is a ton of
>> concrete and brick between the two as well).  So I think this will need to
>> be something SIP based.  This is something I am doing for free, so any low
>> budget ideas that would meet these requirements would be appreciated.
>>  Obviously wireless isn't the ideal situation for VoIP, but there isn't much
>> choice in this scenario.
>> >
>> > Thanks much for any suggestions.
>> >
>>
>> Especially for the money, how would Asterisk be overkill?
>>
>> I would recommend either Asterisk, Asterisk NOW, FreePBX, or AstLinux.
>>
>> With best regards,
>>
>> Fred
>> http://qxork.com
>>
>>
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