This slashdot article may help you with the paging portion of your endevaour:<br><br><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/220222&threshold=1">http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/18/220222&threshold=1
</a><br><br>-brandon<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Fullerton</b> <<a href="mailto:dfullertasterisk@shorelinecontainer.com">dfullertasterisk@shorelinecontainer.com</a>
> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Greetings<br><br>I'm in the process of planning my first production system and wondered
<br>if those with some experience would let me know if I'm doing anything<br>stupid or have some suggestions.<br><br>This is going to be used in a manufacturing facility with about 22<br>phones. About 10 of which are office staff. I'm not going to implement
<br>call recording, meetme, or queues or anything fancy at this point. I'll<br>be using Polycom 601's and 501's for the office staff and 301's for the<br>plant phones. I've already had a few phones set up in my office to test
<br>with and I've got what I need for provisioning figured out. I'll have<br>all the phones set to canreinvite=yes and use the transfer functions of<br>the phone. Voice mail will be provided for office staff. Since I don't
<br>have that many phones and everything will be on the LAN I'm just going<br>to stick with ulaw for the codec.<br><br>The planned server will be an HP Proliant ML110 G3 with a 3Ghz Pentium<br>630 processor, 1GB of RAM, and two 80GB SATA hard drives in a RAID1
<br>(linux software raid) configuration. I'm planning on using the on-board<br>gigabit network controller.<br><br>I'll have about 8 POTS lines (no caller id or call waiting) connected to<br>the system. I'm planning on using a Sangoma Remora A20004D (8 FXO with
<br>on-board echo canceler). Echo is actually my biggest fear of the whole<br>project. There won't be any faxes coming through the server.<br><br>For the few analog phones that may be used I'll be using some SPA-3000's<br>
I already have on hand for FXS ports.<br><br>We will have need for overhead paging eventually. This is one area I'm a<br>little unsure of. My current off-the-cuff plan is to use a Budgetone<br>phone with the headset jack plugged into the amp and set to auto-answer.
<br>(Saw this on the wiki). I've looked at some of the other devices on the<br>wiki but I'm not sure how to implement them. Any advice would be<br>appreciated.<br><br>I'm also trying to decide whether I want to use Asterisk Business
<br>Edition or stick with the downloaded version. Money really isn't a big<br>issue but I'm not sure what the pros and cons are. I know I would get a<br>"hardened" version thats not likely to have many bugs and support from
<br>Digium, but I'm not sure what "version" of asterisk it is or what<br>features are in the 1.2 branch that aren't in ABE or vice-versa. I'm<br>assuming ABE is in binary form, will it even work with Sangoma hardware,
<br>is it distro sensitive? (I was going to call Digium but ran out of time<br>this week).<br><br>I think that covers it. If anyone has some tips or constructive<br>criticism I would appreciate hearing it.<br><br>Thanks!<br>
<br>-Dave<br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation provided by <a href="http://Easynews.com">Easynews.com</a> --<br><br>asterisk-users mailing list<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
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brandon.galbraith@gmail.com</a><br>AIM: brandong00<br>Voice: 630.400.6992<br>"A true pirate starts drinking before the sun hits the yard-arm. Yarrrr. --thelost"