[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk in a Centrex environment?

[Dan Austin]

We had a Centigram solution.  The data circuit, or more commonly
a serial link, is used to signal the which analog line is about
to receive a call and why (No answer, Busy, direct, etc).

Without the serial connection, or if the lines were plugged in
a different order than they were identified in the Centigram 
software, calls ended up in the main greeting instead of the
mailbox they were intended for.

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Bachmann [mailto:asterisk at not-real.org] 
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 6:22 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk in a Centrex environment?


Peter Pauly wrote:

>Does anyone know what would be involved in making
>Asterisk work as a voicemail system in a Centrex
>environment?  We have a Centrigram voicemail system
>that belongs in the Smithsonian. There are analog
>lines coming into the box and a 56KB data feed from
>the phone company's switch. 
>  
>
Note that I'm no expert on this kind of configuration, but this sounds 
pretty easy.  Get a channel bank (or better yet, just get a T1 from the 
ILEC) and a Digium card. Configuring voicemail and extensions is pretty 
easy, just look at voicemail.conf.  The only puzzling part is the data 
feed... what's it for, determining which line is ringing which voicemail

box?  If so, perhaps it can be converted to DNIS on the T1?

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