[Asterisk-Users] Digital phones

[Anthony Wood]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:42:55PM -0400, marrandy wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2003 04:26 pm, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> > The problem isn't as much controlling the phone, but electrically
> > interfacing with it. AFAIK, this is one of the ways the proprietary
> > systems lock you into their phones. Currently there is no hardware to
> > talk to those phones, let alone the programming to do it. If you find a
> > card that supports those phones and plugs into a PCI bus, hopefully also
> > already has linux drivers, then we can see about supporting those
> > phones.
> > -- 
> > Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
> 
> 
> So does that just leave regular single line phones ?
> 
> Besides IP phones.
> 
> What else can be used ?

You can plug your old PABX into asterisk and use its phones through that.

Softphones (software + computer + soundcard + microphone + speaker)
Some IP phones have bluetooth gateways so you can use your snazzy mobile phone
without paying your telco.

cheers,
Woody