I like the Echo application in asterisk ;) . Weird :P<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2008 7:07 PM, Mark Johnson <<a href="mailto:asterisk@astroshapes.com">asterisk@astroshapes.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:<br>> Hi, all. I've done some Asterisk recelling, but recently got roped into a<br>> Sr. SysAdmin position. Our PBX is c. 1823, and -- well, as pretty much<br>> all circuit-based systems do, it sucks. It sucks to administer, moves
<br>> suck... you know the drill. So, I'd love change to an Asterisk system.<br>> My boss, who loves to spend money for no particular reason, wants to go<br>> proprietary, though. So I'm going to have to try to sell him. I figured
<br>> one place to start would be some of the really cool applications that<br>> Asterisk has that -- generally, at least -- don't require licensing. Some<br>> of my favorites are follow-me, meetme, voicemail-to-e-mail and
<br>> fax-to-e-mail. What are some of your favorite features/applications, be<br>> ith native or third-party?<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> -Ken<br><br></div>We moved from a Cisco Call Manager about 2.5 years ago to Asterisk. One
<br>of the hurdles I had was that the Call Manager had a receptionist panel<br>so they could see who was on the phone, transfer calls, etc...<br><br>I set up a demo of of the Flash Operator Panel and it alleviated that<br>
sticking point. It's a little slower than an executable would be, but<br>it's web based and flash so it's runs on just about every browser and OS.<br><br>You can even do some slick things like pop up windows in the browser to
<br>provide information about who is calling. Works good for a CMS system<br>where a customer service rep can automatically be shown information<br>about the customer who is on the line.<br><br><a href="http://www.asternic.org/" target="_blank">
http://www.asternic.org/</a><br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Mark Johnson<br><a href="http://www.astroshapes.com/information-technology/blog/" target="_blank">http://www.astroshapes.com/information-technology/blog/</a>
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