[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as a stand alone voice mail server

[Troy Settle]

Sounds like * would be perfect for me to start with a PRI and a few
hundred numbers to create a standalone voicemail system.  Can I assume
that individual mailboxes can be identified by the DNIS information
passed in from the switch?  Can I also assume that voicemail can be
stored on the server or delivered to the recipient via email?

What type of hardware would be needed to support a VM-only system that
can scale up to 4 PRI or so?



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  Troy Settle
  Pulaski Networks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Todd
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:54 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as a stand alone voice 
> mail server
> 
> 
> 
> The downside right now to using Asterisk as a VM server is that there 
> is no "easy" way to get message waiting indications back into your 
> upstream PBX platform so that message waiting lights work as 
> expected.  I posted the spec for SMDI (Bellcore spec TSR-TSY-000283) 
> on the 13th of last month 
> (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-June/0008
> 84.html) 
> if anyone wants to take up the flag and start writing code.  I see 
> that SMDI is supported by Cisco Call Manager (at least, in >v3.0 that 
> I've found) but I don't know if they support it _inbound_ and if it's 
> TCP or serial or what.  I have not done any research on Cisco's 
> implementation.  It does not appear that writing an SMDI interface 
> for Asterisk would be of great difficulty, so if Cisco supports the 
> standard, it would be a day or two of work by a clever programmer to 
> get a module together.
> 
> Other than that "gotcha", Asterisk works quite well as a voicemail 
> server.  There are some quirks to the existing Voicemail and 
> Voicemail2 applications, but if you find bugs they are (usually) 
> fixed quickly.  Shortly, the envelope functions should be in place 
> which are the last remaining pieces that are "basic" functionality 
> that is expected to work in a voicemail system but is currently 
> missing.  ("Message one received at three fifty two pm july tenth") 
> I would strongly suggest that your VM access be via IP or PRI 
> channels; using analog channels is certainly possible, but not 
> desirable if you have other options.
> 
> 
> >I'm sure asterisk would make a great stand alone voice mail server.
> >Basically I want to get rid of our voice mail system and 
> replace it with
> >*, but the problem is we use a cisco cluster with skinny 
> clients. So I
> >was thinking the way to contact a * server, would be through 
> our 3640.
> >But so far any attempt has failed. I am wondering if anyone has done
> >something similar. Just want to verify the idea is sound. 
> Please keep in
> >mind I just heard of * a few days ago and don't know much about it.
> >Though it seems pretty easy to use. At least configuring a couple
> >clients was not that tough. Thanks to John Todd for his easy 
> to follow
> >guide at www.onlamp.com.
> 
> Yer welcome.
> 
> >Anyone with something similar? if so some info on what you did would
> >help a lot.
> >
> >Thanks all,
> >
> >Ron E.
> 
> 
> JT
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