[Asterisk-Users] ADSI Phones

[Andrew Joakimsen]

Would any code other than dialing the extension to program the phone be
required? I have been in touch with Aastra's support and they seem to be
pretty helpful. Can the phones be reset and then loaded with the code
from asterisk?

Lastly, will these work with a SIP gateway or must they be directly
connected to the Asterisk machine?

Please also get in touch with me off list, I might be interested in some
ADSI gear.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jayson Vantuyl
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:05 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADSI Phones
> 
> Sorry for the long delay in replying here.
> 
> > 1.  What ADSI phone do you use (in production:)),  what is required
to
> get
> > them going?
> I use Aastra PowerTouch 390s.
> 
> > 2.  Can any of the ADSI phones monitor another extension to display
a
> busy
> > indicator for that extension?
> No.  ADSI provides a screen, softkeys, scriptable buttons, and such,
but
> it cannot communicate with Asterisk without tying up the line.  As
such,
> it can't really provide a lot of the out-of-band information that
comes
> in a PBX.  This has been why I've beens sorely considering actually
> manufacturing my own PBX phones for Asterisk.
> 
> > 3.  Is there any standard business feature that you can't provide
with
> > a 1 line ADSI phone + Asterisk(exluding tons of hacking)ie
> > hold,transfer by softkey, voicemail by softkey, conference call,
> > voicemail MWI etc.?
> Hold => check
> transfer by softkey => check
> voicemail by softkey => check
> conference call => check
> MWI => check
> I can't think of much that can't be done other than the pretty
> notification
> lights that don't scale beyond the 10-line/user point anyways.
> 
> > Is there any advantage to having a 2 or even 3 line ADSI phone?
> None that I've seen.  I've seen people try to maintain a call on line
2
> while there was an ADSI session happening on line 1 (thus allowing
some
> interactivity out of band).  This never seemed to amount to a poor,
> buggy, hack.
> 
> > 4.  It seems the receptionist would be very limited in routing
calls.
> Voice
> > menu is probably not an option.  How have you dealt with that?  Any
> reason
> > not 	do something like this:
> I don't understand this question, exactly.  Our receptionists toss
calls
> around with the ease.  It's not single button transfer, but there is a
> certain wisdom in realizing that finding a single button in 200 can be
> vastly less efficient than using a paper extension index or DID
> extensions.
> 
> > 5.  Share a source for buying them?
> We can deal them.  I can't get my vendor to tell me exactly what part
> number to order, but I can get the phones in and resell them at a
> competitive price point.  I have the programming codes for the model I
> get.  To be honest, the biggest issue blocking ADSI phones is getting
a
> vendor to be open with you about the codes.  Most ADSI vendors are
> selling phones that are to be programmable by a large telco
third-party,
> not you!!!  Thus, the attitude is often something like "If you
> legitimately needed the code, you'd already have it".  This is a tough
> nut to crack considering how wary the telco people seem to be about
> getting socially engineered.
> 
> > Any tips or info/configs would be greatly appreciated.
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