<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 2, 2009, at 3:35 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Absolutely. It doesn't sound like you need much firepower. You may<br>even be able to carve off a virtual server for it. We don't do that in<br>order to minimize latency but I'm sure lots of folks swear by such a<br>setup. You will have the typical maintenance - updates, security<br>patches, any client side changes.<br><br>I would imagine your biggest challenge will be getting people into the<br>system. If they are all internal (I was originally assuming they were<br>not), they can all use soft phones and head sets. Since it is a<br>monologue, you may even be able to dispense with the headsets. If folks<br>are calling in from outside your network, it gets a little trickier. If<br>they all have Internet connections, they can establish direct SIP<br>connections to your PBX. If they are coming in from the PSTN, you will<br>need phone lines. You could talk to a VoIP carrier and see if they can<br>replace your PSTN access and then you would have the best of all worlds.<br>Hope this helps - John<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">I'm sure I will encounter it in the book, but I'm looking to understand what actually needs to occur.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">Basically their scenario is a small auditorium that is already connected to the existing phone line so that ones may listen in over the 3-way to 3-way to 3-way (ad infinitum) chain. They have a *very* simple setup. There is no internet or internal network.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">That said, is there any way technologically to branch/bridge a normal phone line using Asterisk (or anything else), or must I have some other number/service coming in?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">Also, I believe there was a bit of confusion with an earlier post. Although they wish to *host* the entire setup in-house, they will have external callers.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">I'm certainly not opposed to the various proposed solutions, but given the nature of the project you can understand that I don't want to spend resources on items they don't absolutely need.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">Best,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Trebuchet MS'; ">Michael</div></div></body></html>