[Asterisk-Users] Comdial PBX -- can use Asterisk as VM box?

[Matt Darnell]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:58:11 -0500, George Herndon
<gherndon at eyeontech.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 8:48 AM, asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com
> wrote:
> ken ,
> 
> i too have a comdial analog pbx.  i'm running a seperate vm system and
> would like to migrate to asterisk.  right now, my comdial
> 
> hands off calls via serial connections to my vm box.  i don't really
> know what i'm talking about, but i'd like to find a solution whereby i
> could accept the T1s (2 in my case) to an asterisk server, route calls
> to vm as necessary and then hand station calls out to my existing PBX.
> some clients could be converted over to new IP phones or software based
> phones (customer service, if quality is good enough) and some clients
> would remain analog.
> 
> if anyone is doing this (or a similar but proven and technically
> correct workflow) let me know.
> 

> 
> >
> > Hi!  I've got a Comdial PBX that I would dearly love to replace with an
> > Asterisk box.  However, for various reasons, it appears not to be in
> > the
> > cards.  Regardless of what management does, or does not, want, our
> > current VM solution -- some Dialogic card with a "KeyVoice" application
> > -- is dying.  I'm 90% sure it's hardware.  I'd rather shoot myself than
> > replace the hardware.  Is there any way to get Asterisk to respond to
> > whatever mechanism it is that the Comdial puts out to the Dialogic?
> > Things I've already tried and discarded:
> >
> > DID: the PBX strips off the DID stuff before it gets to the Asterisk
> > box
> > Caller ID: ibid.
> >
> > So, I'm guessing that there's some, for lack of a better word, protocol
> > that must be standardized to some extent, that allows things like the
> > Comdial PBX to talk to someone else's VM solution.  Can Asterisk play
> > ball?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Ken
> >

Has anyone written a module for something like this?

You would need to intercept the inband digits coming from the PBX