[asterisk-users] Panasonic x Asterisk if I can emulate Panasonic fast!

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On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jorge Mendoza <mendoza at tcc.com.pe> wrote:
> Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
>> Im a 3-days-asterisk-newbie. In 3 weeks, I must have a PBX installed in
>> a new office of ours: Panasonic or Asterisk. Asterisk would be, if I can
>> emulate some Panasonic functions on Asterisk fast, to convince the
>> executives.
>>
> Asterisk is more featured than Panasonic, but you must to know Asterisk
> to convince your executives.... ;-)

Not really so. Depending on lots of factors, usually for a small
office of only 5-10 users Panasonic is more feature rich. Since the
main feature they are looking for in a PBX is to be able to yell
across the hallway; "hey boss call on 5 it's your wife" which is not
really possible with Asterisk (yeah I know call parking, but how many
phones support it flawlessly with flashing LEDs?).
Other features that are quite popular in small offices and not
supported by Asterisk:
* Live call screening - Yes there is a hack that can do it, but it's a
hell of a hack.
* Phones that can do most of the usefull features supported by the PBX
for a reasonable price with LED buttons, including the following
features:
** Call recording with LED indication, while at it, the recordings
integrate seamlessly with your voicemail, which means you don't need
to browse the file system on the PBX to listen to it.
** Login/Logout of queues, Day/Night mode buttons with indication (1.6
has this as well).
** Company internal directory on the phone updated on the PBX
** System Speed Dial on the display updated by the PBX
** Call Fwd by PBX with LED indication (not phone based callfwd which sucks).
** On screen Voicemail (on the phone).
** Line assignment to buttons with LED indication, and hold indication.
** Hold ringback (some IP phones support it).
There are many more features but I can't remember them at the moment.

Granted in bigger installations there many more factors and usually
more funding which makes the above list almost obsolete for the
features that Asterisk does have.

Again my advice do not go with Asterisk for this installation go with Panasonic.




>> What I have done until now: Bought 1 Linksys pap2 (2 FXS), 1 Linksys
>> SPA3102 (1 FXS + 1 FXO) for making asterisk tests. Configured
>> Asterisk/Fedora 9 so I can make SIP->PSTN and PSTN->SIP calls.
>>
>> Works. Now, I need this help, please:
>>
>> * Dialing from inside (pap2-FXS connected phone) to another number on
>> the same city (goes out by SPA3102 FXO), voice works fine. But when a
>> menu answers, and I dial over, the menu dialed keys works only 20% of
>> all times. Why could this would be? Voltage levels? sound gains? Dialed
>> keys get distorsioned when passing over the 2 Linksys? Linksys or
>> Asterisk swallowing some dialed key? I noticed some echo...
>>
> Probably you are sending dtmf signals inband. Try outband.
> For the echo, try to change the FXO/FXS impedance, and/or playing with
> the rx and tx gains. I assume that do you have echo cancelling enable in
> both SPA.
>> * I need to assign two codes to each user, one for international calls
>> charged to the office, another for international calls charged to the
>> user. If the user enters an incorrect code, the call should not proceed.
>>
> See account codes. You can start here:
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+Billing
>
>> * I need to get a formatted calls report for the administrators to
>> charge the users.
>>
> See same link, or google for billing
>> I just am confused and stucked with all the documentation in Internet,
>> and all this new asterisk jargon. I just need some links (or some
>> directions) to go fast on this topics. Of course, some more help would
>> be appreciated.
>>
> The link to start:
> http://www.voip-info.org
>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
> De nada
>
> Jorge
>
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