[asterisk-users] In the beginning-The first question.

[James R. Stevens]

List,
Im a Cisco certified Network guy with little telecom experience (BRI/PRI
at the time) so please forgive my terminology. I am showing interest
after the Network World SHSU October 4 article. We have 3 offices
(Hub-Spoke T1 Frame relay to the remote offices(Data & voice on separate
T)). Each office currently does their own thing for telecom. Our
Main(HUB) office currently has 14 channels of T1 into an ADIT 600
punched down to the DEMARC. Our Panasonic (72 port) VB-43050 DBS picks
up from the DEMARC and spits out 4 lines for our VM server. My goal is
described below, the question is how to make Asterisk do it.

Consolidate telecom services of the other two offices into our HUB
office. Try (Hard) to keep some of the current phones
(Panasonic-Digital_ Not a high priority). 

The Adit 600 is property of our Provider so currently we would have to
take it from the other side. OR Should the T1 go straight into the
Asterisk server?

My Ideal:

A full 24 channel T1 into an Asterisk server on its own VLAN routed to
the remote offices over a separate PVC than the data. The remote offices
would A) use SIP phones B) terminate somewhere allowing them to use the
current phones.
The smallest office has 19 stations. The largest has 25.
We must have overhead paging
Each office is satisfied having 7 concurrent calls MAX.

Have we enough info to ask:
1) 1 server or several?
2) Channel bank or not?
3) Type of card for the server?
4) Am I having delusions of grandeur?

We can talk with anyone off list or On giving much more details of our
project thoughts. Surely someone (Many of you) are in the same boat.
This message if the first in an attempt to gather information to
document my 'Proof of Concept' to the powers that be.

Thanks everyone for your reply's


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