[Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations

[Dane Reugger]

Maybe I am getting this wrong - every phone I look at says it handles a
given number of lines.

I don't want to spend the extra for 4 appearances when all I need is 2.
Where I must be missing something  is:

Imagine w/ have 2 appearances phones - no operator - the phones just ring.

Lets say a call comes in and its for Joe, Joe picks up
another call comes in, this time for Fred - he picks up
now a call comes for me - wouldn't their above calls occupy all of our
appearances?

If not I would think we would need some type of operator forwarding the
call to the phones instead of just having them ring.

Sorry, I'm not getting it - maybe I'm just too old fashioned. I'm trying
to do this as simply and economically as possibly w/o sacrificing quality.

Your help is GREATLY appreciated.

-Dane




Kerry Garrison wrote:
> You need to separate lines from call appearances. Asterisk has lines (actual
> phone lines) and phones have call appearances (number of simultaneous calls
> the phone can handle). You could have 1000 lines going into your Asterisk
> box but the typical user doesn't need more than 2 - 4 simultaneous calls.
> On the flip side, you could have 4 "lines" coming into your asterisk server
> and have 100 phones with 4 call appearances each. By using Asterisk to
> manage the lines, you don't need 400 phone lines to support 100 phones w/4
> call appearances each.
>
> Kerry Garrison
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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 
>> Dane Reugger
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:09 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations
>>
>> If you have 16 call appearances or lines - how do you get to 
>> line 16 - type in some code?
>>
>>
>> Adam Goryachev wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 23:00 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Polycom SoundPoint 601 has 4 'lines'. :)
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Actually, it has 6 'lines' :)
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> 	Needing a 4 line phone is going to decrease your 
>>>>         
>> choices of phones.
>>     
>>>> 	
>>>> 	Why do you need 4 lines?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> He probably hasn't worked out the difference between 'call 
>>>       
>> appearances'
>>     
>>> and lines yet.... Even a polycom 301 (with 2 'lines' can 
>>>       
>> handle loads 
>>     
>>> of calls, I think the limit is something like 16 per line, 
>>> configurable in the xml file).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Adam
>>>
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