[Asterisk-Users] How to demo the Power of Asterisk

[Colin Anderson]

>Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Adds, moves, and changes which are the bane of any telephone administrator.
Show how fast it is to add an extension with voicemail. Using AMP, I can add
a new SNOM in under a minute with voicemail. Contrast that with the 15-20
minutes or so it takes with my Mitel (and usually we bollox it up and we
have to start over). 

If you have access to a PRI show how fast it is to add a DID. Takes me about
90 seconds to set up. Our Mitel -fuggedabout it! we usually call our
interconnect to do it for us because  it is so error-prone. Really, you have
to go to 5 different screens and everything has to be *exactly* right. In
Asterisk, I just type in 3 lines in extensions.conf (1 to answer, 1 to dial
the extension, 1 to go to voicemail on timeout) and reload, done.

If you have access to a fast box, and 15-20 minutes of their time, show them
Leif Madsen's (and other's) killer install script to go from blank Linux to
complete install in 15 minutes flat:

http://szmidt.org/asterisk/asterisk-update.sh

What my guys really go gaga over is FOP (the Flash operator panel) the web
based voicemail, and emailing voicemail to their inboxes.