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color=#0000ff size=2>my $0.02...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I have implemented <A href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A> 0.9
in a Real Estate/Legal office with 6 phones and 3 incoming lines using
TDM04B card and Polycom/Sipura phones.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I am about to implement 3 more systems (<A
href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A> 1.3) for a construction company. One will
be 6 phones and 4 PSTN lines using SPA-3000 ATA's. The second will be 2x
TDM04B connecting to 6 lines to start with 10 Polycom IP-501 phones.
The third system has not yet been designed. but will be 4 lines and 6 - 7
phones.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>The Real Estate system is running <A
href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A> 0.9 and has been running for 59 days since the last
reboot, which I did when I added the Polycom phones. This is a fairly
light-use system averaging about 1700 minutes/mo in usage. It is setup to
have an Auto-Attendant when no one is present and to have the phones answered
live when the receptionist is at her desk. I setup a "* + number" code for
the receptionist to dial to toggle the Auto-attendant.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>As of yet I have not run into any problems running the one
system in production, and we are confident in the other 3 systems that are about
to be implemented. The systems that will be implemented soon will have
pretty high call volume, as these are for a construction job trailers on pretty
large scale projects.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I started off by exploring Asterisk and actually built a
couple of test systems without using <A href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A>. I was
able to figure out the configurations and actually had no problems setting up
the test systems (for me it was pretty simple even though I had never
touched linux before). I created a set of config files that I was going to
copy from server to server to aid the implementation, and I was ready to build
the server for the Real Estate office... </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Then, I ran across <A href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A> and after
playing with it a little bit determined that it provided a quicker setup process
and provided all the features that we would need. Clearly, there are some
things that are easier to do without <A href="mailto:*@H">*@H</A> due to the
limitations provided by AMP... but I have found that for these small office
implementations, this has not been an issue.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Hope this helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Jeff Busch</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Michael
Felder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:17 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Asterisk
Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Asterisk-Users] Difference between Asterisk and
Asterisk@home<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=462011003-18072005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#0000ff>Hello </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=462011003-18072005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#0000ff>What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in
terms of functionality.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=462011003-18072005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#0000ff>For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the
easy version...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=462011003-18072005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
color=#0000ff>Mike</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>