[asterisk-biz] need a phone system suggestion

[Robert Rothberg]

You guys talked me into it.  I looked at using my usual host, lyris.net, but
I decided to pull a spare PC out of storage and built a PiaF/IncrediblePBX
2.0 box w/Google voice.  I haven't worked with GV before and this seems to
be a good excuse to add that to my list of things I've tried before.  With
spare stuff I have laying around, this shouldn't cost the school a penny
which is a good thing for any school in these times.  Now it would be nice
to find a module that will do reverse-911 type of stuff so they can call out
for snow days and such this winter.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:44 PM, David Gibbons <david.c.gibbons at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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