[Asterisk-Users] University phone system

[Doug Heckaman III]

I just talked with a friend that is a computer teacher at the local 
collage. He heard about my experiments with asterisk and some grandstream 
phones, and he wants to get a small setup going as a class project, which 
will hopefully expand to cover the whole building. Right now if a teacher 
needs to call, he needs to go to the "teachers lounge" and use the phone in 
there. Also, each room does not have a phone, which is getting very old (if 
the teacher needs to talk to another teacher, they have to actully walk to 
the other classroom). They also have many campuses scattered through out 
the state, and each has a direct T1 to each one, which would allow 
expansion to make campus to campus calls for free, without using up long 
distance lines. I was wondering if anyone has ever setup something like 
this, maybe with it starting out very small, (soft ip phones in the 
classroom to play around with *), and gradually growing into something 
larger. This would be good intro into linux, and would also benefit the 
campus. Any thoughts on this idea and tips would be appreciated.



Doug