[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as a stand alone voice mail server
Troy Settle
troy at psknet.com
Wed Jul 23 19:10:48 MST 2003
Sounds like * would be perfect for me to start with a PRI and a few
hundred numbers to create a standalone voicemail system. Can I assume
that individual mailboxes can be identified by the DNIS information
passed in from the switch? Can I also assume that voicemail can be
stored on the server or delivered to the recipient via email?
What type of hardware would be needed to support a VM-only system that
can scale up to 4 PRI or so?
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Troy Settle
Pulaski Networks
http://www.psknet.com
540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638
Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year
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> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Todd
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:54 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk as a stand alone voice
> mail server
>
>
>
> The downside right now to using Asterisk as a VM server is that there
> is no "easy" way to get message waiting indications back into your
> upstream PBX platform so that message waiting lights work as
> expected. I posted the spec for SMDI (Bellcore spec TSR-TSY-000283)
> on the 13th of last month
> (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2003-June/0008
> 84.html)
> if anyone wants to take up the flag and start writing code. I see
> that SMDI is supported by Cisco Call Manager (at least, in >v3.0 that
> I've found) but I don't know if they support it _inbound_ and if it's
> TCP or serial or what. I have not done any research on Cisco's
> implementation. It does not appear that writing an SMDI interface
> for Asterisk would be of great difficulty, so if Cisco supports the
> standard, it would be a day or two of work by a clever programmer to
> get a module together.
>
> Other than that "gotcha", Asterisk works quite well as a voicemail
> server. There are some quirks to the existing Voicemail and
> Voicemail2 applications, but if you find bugs they are (usually)
> fixed quickly. Shortly, the envelope functions should be in place
> which are the last remaining pieces that are "basic" functionality
> that is expected to work in a voicemail system but is currently
> missing. ("Message one received at three fifty two pm july tenth")
> I would strongly suggest that your VM access be via IP or PRI
> channels; using analog channels is certainly possible, but not
> desirable if you have other options.
>
>
> >I'm sure asterisk would make a great stand alone voice mail server.
> >Basically I want to get rid of our voice mail system and
> replace it with
> >*, but the problem is we use a cisco cluster with skinny
> clients. So I
> >was thinking the way to contact a * server, would be through
> our 3640.
> >But so far any attempt has failed. I am wondering if anyone has done
> >something similar. Just want to verify the idea is sound.
> Please keep in
> >mind I just heard of * a few days ago and don't know much about it.
> >Though it seems pretty easy to use. At least configuring a couple
> >clients was not that tough. Thanks to John Todd for his easy
> to follow
> >guide at www.onlamp.com.
>
> Yer welcome.
>
> >Anyone with something similar? if so some info on what you did would
> >help a lot.
> >
> >Thanks all,
> >
> >Ron E.
>
>
> JT
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