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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've spent the past several weeks reading up and
playing around with Asterisk while I've been waiting for an ISDN card I got on
ebay to arrive so I can really get to business. I'd just like to run my project
ideaa by some of you to hopefully get a little feedback. I aplogize if this ends
up being a somewhat long message.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the Marine Corps we've somewhat recently started
using Redcom IGX switches in place of the proprietary (and ridiculously
expensive) switches that we've used in the past (well, and still do use). This
opens the door to all kinds of off-the-shelf equipment that we can interface
with. My goal now is to usefully integrate Asterisk primarily to provide
voicemail and autoattendant feature and probably to demonstrate various VOIP
capabilities. Ideally I would interface via a T1/E1 interface (might as well use
E1 for the extra channels) but since I don't want to shell out gobs of money for
what is at this point still a personal project, I'm opting for ISDN
connectivity. One interface for now will give me two channels but I'll get
another interface when I see more progress.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To my knowledge, the Redcom switch isn't
specifically designed to be interfaced with any voicemail systems. However, it
can be set up to forward calls on busy/no answer. This looks like it should be
the ticket. I can set a forward number for each phone to something like
xxxxyyy where xxxx will just tell the switch to follow a specific route to a
group of ISDN channels. Then it'll open an ISDN connection and pass on yyy (and
whatever else is needed) to Asterisk which could be used to identify the
voicemail box somehow. I guess I could set up any type of extension (SIP or IAX
or whatever) and since nobody would ever actually be connected to that
extension, Asterisk would automatically send it to voicemail every time. I
imagine autoattendant could be set up similarly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My understanding of Asterisk is very.. limited at
this point as I'm sure you can tell. But does my above thinking seem doable? I
imagine I'll figure it all out eventually but any pointers that might speed up
the process would be greatly appreciated!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Matt</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>