[Asterisk-Users] NEWBIE looking for advice.

[Chad Sawyer]

We have a few boxes out there with T100P's and Adtran 750's configured
similar to what you suggest, and use adsi phone for extensions.  It has been
almost trouble free.  We have also gone back and mixed in SIP snom,
grandstream, and cisco phones with reasonable success.  We have not had an
echo problem with this setup, and the programmabillity of the adsi phones
let us add simple features such as internal directories, and speed dials to
commom asterisk features such as the external paging extension.  Its what I
use at work also.  Callerid works fine, as does faxing, transferring, and
3way calling.  The only feature we miss from our old system is station to
station paging, but a cheap stereo and speakers gets us by...


Chad Sawyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Johnson" <joshua.johnson at ftlsys.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] NEWBIE looking for advice.


> All,
>
>     Thanks for taking time to read.
>
>     I am wanting someone to tell me that I have a clue here and that the
> following proposed setup would (possibly) work.
>
>     Currently existing are 4 pots lines with qty. 10 AT&T 954/854 phones.
>
>     Would like to convert to asterisk and at the same time do a mild
> feature upgrade.
>
>     Proposing to get:
>
>     PIII 800MHz or better
>     >=256MB RAM
>     Linux box running Asterisk
>
>     Adtran TA750 w/ 6 FXS Boards (24 channels w/ T1)
>     Get a Quad FXO board and swap it with one of the FXS boards.
>
>     Put a T100P or TE410P(expandability) in the Linux box and connect with
> crossover T1 Cable to the Adtran.
>
>     Run the current 4 POTS lines into the FXO's on the TA750.
>
>     Wire the office phones to the FXS ports (now 20 of them since board
> swap)
>
>     Replace AT&T *54 phones with POTS phones, hopefully with a flash
button.
>
>     Configure Asterisk, and enjoy !!
>
>
>     Would this be:
>
>     1) A sane solution?
>     2) Reliable/Hassle Free--compared to SIP phones, H.323, IAX etc.?
>     3) Could I expect fax/data/callerID to function?
>     4) Are there problems in tweaking the flash configuration, to get
> things like hold, transfer, 3 way etc. to work.
>
> Thanks in advance for any/all advice.
>
>
> Joshua
>
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