[Asterisk-Users] Building from scratch, would like the benefit of everyone's experience

[Steve Langstaff]

You could keep your phones if you used a Norstar SIP Handset Gateway from http://www.citel.com/products/handset_gateways/

Each handset gateway allows you to convert up to 24 Norstar handsets from the proprietary Norstar signalling protocol to SIP.

Other handset types are also supported.

Disclaimer: I work for Citel.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Warren
Sent: 17 January 2006 14:28
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Building from scratch,would like the benefit
of everyone's experience


Hi all,

I am going to be building an Asterisk system to replace the current 
aging (aged) Nortel Meridian system in a travel agency.  There is 
already a voice T-1 in place and currently there are about 20 extensions 
in use.  I would want to move up to about 25 extensions immediately and 
about 30-35 within the year.

I am going to want IVR and voicemail, plus the ability to ring a group 
of phones at once if the caller wants a salesperson.

Here is what I am thinking of so far:
Server: Dell PowerEdge 1850 with redundant power supplies and hardware 
RAID 1 across 2 drives, running Centos 4.x - nice server with redundancy 
and only 1U
T-1 Interface: Digium TE110P

I would like any comments about those choices and also some comments 
about what phones would be good.  I can make the business case for 
almost any reasonable budget - I just need to know what would be best 
and if I need any other cards (Noise cancellation?) - If so I would 
probably have to go to a 2U server like a 2850.

The phones are my biggest question mark right now.  I know basically 
nothing about IP phones.  The only thing that I do know is that having 2 
ethernet ports would be very helpful since there is only 1 network 
connection per desk and that is already plugged into a PC.  I would like 
phones that allow static IPs (which I assume all do) so that the 
programmers can allow a Customer Service rep to bring up the sales 
record(s) of the person they are on the phone with based on their phone 
number.

Thanks for any help,
Warren
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