[Asterisk-Users] ADSI Phones

[Andy Hester]

I am considering switching my Asterisk implementation from SIP to ADSI.  I
have the channel bank and a T100P for 24 analog stations.  Currently my
phones crash often.  I have some questions though, because I don't want the
users to be disapointed again.

1.  What ADSI phone do you use (in production:)),  what is required to get
them going?

2.  Can any of the ADSI phones monitor another extension to display a busy
indicator for that extension?

3.  Is there any standard business feature that you can't provide with a 1
line ADSI phone + Asterisk(exluding tons of hacking)ie hold,transfer by
softkey,        	voicemail by softkey, conference call, voicemail MWI etc.?
Is there any advantage to having a 2 or even 3 line ADSI phone?

4.  It seems the receptionist would be very limited in routing calls.  Voice
menu is probably not an option.  How have you dealt with that?  Any reason
not 	do something like this:

		exten => 100,1,Dial,Zap/1|15
		exten => 100,2,Voicemail,u100
		exten => 100,102,Wait|10
		exten => 100,103,Play,wait.gsm(not sure if this is the right syntax, but
you get the idea)
		exten => 100,104,Dial,Zap/1|15
		exten => 100,105,Voicemail,u100
		exten => 100,205,Voicemail,b100

5.  Share a source for buying them?

Any tips or info/configs would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Andy Hester
Consero