[Asterisk-Users] Digital phones

[marrandy]

On Sunday 06 July 2003 03:25 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:

> > Surely though, even something as simple as "visual message waiting 
indicator"  
> > has a different code to activate it on a phone, depending on the 
> > manufacturer.
> 
> You just about answered your own question here, different codes for each
> manufacturer is not equal to standard. Asterisk has support for analog
> phones, and digital trunking via E1/T1 circuits. This allows you to
> interconnect to phone systems that might use digital phones. You can
> also use it via a channel bank to link large amounts of lines to
> asterisk.
> -- 
> Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>

Hello Steven.

That's what I thought.  But I don't know much about PBX/key phone systems, so 
I thought I would ask.

O.K.- then.

Is there any support in the program to be able to specify a make/model of 
phone system, and if that system has the codes available, translate the codes 
for that system.  

e.g.  if I found/obtained half a dozen business (digital) phones of one 
manufacturer, one model, would they be usable ?   (I suspect not, but 
anything is possible with time and effort).

Or is the proprietry PBX and phone systems, so totally alien to each other, 
that is is impossible.


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