[Asterisk-Users] Intercom and Paging

[asterisk at billheckel.com]

Jeff - If you make special phone cords that break out the 3rd pair at the wiring closet you can just 
join those all together in parallel and your paging will be * independant.

Bill

Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I forsee one of the following:
> 
> 1) All phones on same paging system.  Uses 1 FXS port or a sound card
> on the asterisk box.
> 
> 2) Paging system addressable by groups.  Uses 1 FXS port per paging
> group on asterisk.  (Plus 1 or 2 FXS for a 1/2 line phone)
> 
> 3) Paging system addressable by phone.  Uses 1 FXS port per phone
> dedicated to paging.  (Up to 3 FXS per phone, somewhat wasteful.)
> 
> Since this is my home system and I just want simple paging, I'm going
> to go for option #1.
> 
> Obviously a digital phone would make a better solution, but that isn't
> an option right now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:22:06AM -1000, James H. Thompson wrote:
> 
>>Are you going to need two ports on asterisk for each phone or does the intercom connect outside of
>>asterisk?
> 
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