[Asterisk-Users] My Boss wants background music!!!!

[james]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 04:48, Satchid wrote:
> Dear Members,
> 
> I am searching for a new PBX for the company. My choice is Astrisk. My Boss
> wants background music via all the telephones. This is done in a
> conventional PBX that he wants, but I can use the Asterisk PBX if it can do
> this also. 
> As I said he needs background music on every telephone this is not to be
> mistaken with music on hold. 
> The bit stream is an MP3 file of 8 Kbs. At the server it might be at the
> maximum 570Kbs if it has to send it individually to each telephone. 
> The network: 10/100 layer-3 switches with QoS on a 1000Mbs backbone.

Most hardware phone systems will do this, and its circuitry is related
to station paging and hands free autoanswer intercom. I was wondering
about this feature myself, but more interest in station paging and HFAI.