Asterisk is open source and you can install in a normal PC itself and you can avail all the features that proprietary system has.<div><br></div><div>If you want to integrate with any VoIP service then a PC with Asterisk is enough or else if you want to integrate with PSTN lines then you need FXO card to be installed, its a PCI card. Vendors like Sangoma, Digium (from Asterisk) were selling these cards. And for internal for your agents if you need analog hard phones then you need to have FXS card you can avail these FXO and FXS cards in combination. These cards will fit in your PCI slot of machine. Configuring these cards are also very easy.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it is VoIP then you dont need these cards simply install Asterisk in a PC and you are done. </div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Terry Brummell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terry@brummell.net">terry@brummell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Yes, I use Elastix myself too. Funny that I didn’t mention that one! </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DHAVAL INDRODIYA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 18, 2011 6:11 AM</span></p><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users]Newbie´s question about Asterisk...</div>
</div><p></p></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">i prefer to go with Elastix very easy to setup and maintain and reach UI rather than freePBX <br>
<br>cheers<br>Dhaval</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Terry Brummell <<a href="mailto:terry@brummell.net" target="_blank">terry@brummell.net</a>> wrote:</p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Dean’s link has references to Trixbox. TB has a bad, bad, very bad reputation for being very insecure. Alternatives to TB are FreePBX & PBX in a Flash. All are Asterisk based and very easy to set up.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Collins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users]Newbie´s question about Asterisk...</span></p></div></div><div>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">If you already have experience with linux asterisk will be easy for you.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Other people will reply with official links but here is how I use Asterisk in my small home office <a href="http://www.cognation.net/asterisk" target="_blank">www.cognation.net/asterisk</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Cheers,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dean</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Francisco Javier Cintrón Olguín<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:26 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com" target="_blank">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [asterisk-users] Newbie´s question about Asterisk...</span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Hi, My name is Francisco from México. <br><br>Here, in my work we have a very very old panasonic PBX(12 years old). We are growing and we need to increase our external lines(from 3 to 4) and our internal lines(from 6 to 10). Besides we need voice mail and voice menu too. <br>
<br>We asked for a quote to our panasonic dealer. The whole thing cost about 4,500 dollars. <br><br>My boss just saw a thing called Asterisk this morning looking for options in Google. He asked my to investigate what this thing called Asterisk is and if we could save some money using it instead of the panasonic solution. So, here I am. <br>
<br>I have some experience as linux sysadmin(we have 1 oracle linux server and 1 linux print server) nevertheless I don´t have any idea where and how to start this evaluation?<br><br><br>Please<br>Would you give us a clue where to see If Asterisk could work for us?<br>
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