[Asterisk-Users] New Project - IP Phone Sources

[Brian C. Fertig]

You have more options than you know.  You could go with a channel bank
if you want to keep support for the analog phones in the classrooms
now(my school had them)  or you could goto the next step with the sip
phones.  I have looked around and found a couple vendors to be fairly
inexpensive. 

Check this link out: 

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones

Check under hardphones.  It's a very good resource for the information
your looking for.  As far as the dialplan.  It would take no time to
build what your looking for and get everything setup.

Got any questions feel free to drop me a email

 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stewart M.
Ives
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:05 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] New Project - IP Phone Sources


Hello,

Background:  Old to UNIX & Linus, New to list. A techie Dad that
supports
local k-8 school that my kids go to.

More background:  Recently the school wanted to put phones in all the
classrooms for teacher communications to/from the office.  Another Dad
in the
telecom business spec'ed out a standard PBX with wiring, etc.  Needless
to say
it was Expensive with a Captitol "E".  Anyway I started looking around
at open
source and found Asterisk.  We currently have a complete switched
network
within the school (jsut replaced all hubs with switches) and have
multiple
PC's in each classroom as well as the front office.  We also run RH
Linux for
our webserver, email server, file server, Websense server, and library
software server.

Question: If I just want to provide IP Telephony within the school and
have no
outside connections to the local phone system I suspect I can install
Asterisk
on a RH Linux server and plug in a bunch of IP Telephones on the
network,
config it all and it will work.  The only cost to the school would be
the IP
Telephones.  Correct??  I know it would involve a bit more configuration
and
planning as I have stated but basically is the idea correct??

Question:  What phones or types of phones should I be looking at.  I
suspect
there are new ones coming out every day.  I'm just interested in the
most
basic phone to plug into the network.  Nothing fancy, basic, basic,
basic.  I
also know I can use soft phones but do not want to go there as it makes
just
another application we have to be responsible for on the desktop.

Many thanks in advance.

BTW, the school is:   www.sainttheresaschool.org

stew

>>
>> Stewart M. Ives
>> SofTEC USA
>> WebSite: www.softecusa.com

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