[Asterisk-Users] Multi-extension buttoned phones

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, marrandy wrote:
> I suspect the answer is no, but I'll ask anyway.
> Commercial phone systems have phones with multiple extension buttons e.g. 20, 
> that can be programmed so that when you press one, it will call the 
> extension.
> Is there any 'open' phone that can do this with asterisk, does an 'open' phone 
> even exist.
> Further to that, commercial phone systems have a operators switchboard.  This 
> can have 100, 200 or 300 buttons that will call extensions.  Again. is there 
> an  'open'  system that is asterisk compatible.

I was trying to find something also. One thing I had thought of was to get
a serial connected keyboard with red/green lights on each key. I have seen
them in the past but can't find them now.

dave


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