[Asterisk-Users] Simulating the "lighted line in use" type of phone

[Chris Clifton]

That's fine for outbound lines, but what if I want to call the guy in the
next office ? I have to call him and get redirected to his busy vm just to
know that he's on the phone.

This is a huge issue with the recepetionist with the 'master console'. How
does he/she know whether a user is busy or not ?

20 year old phone systems offer this capability.

I see this as a serious shortfall of asterisk / currently available ip
phones right now.

- Chris Clifton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Fraizer" <tvo at enterzone.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the "lighted line in use" type of
phone


>
> I would put it in a totally different light.  IE; depending on who they
use
> as an IAX/SIP carrier, they may have potentially unlimited outbound and
> inbound lines with the limit only imposed by the total number of
indications
> on the phones in the office and even then, new inbound calls can still go
to
> voicemail or a call queue.
>
> John
>
> Brian Capouch wrote:
> > I'd like to see if anyone out there might have some ideas on this.
> >
> > I have a customer who wants to move to VoIP, but who has an office full
> > of people who are very conservative about their telephones.
> >
> > They would like the asterisk system that I am proposing to have
> > something analogous to what they have right now, which are plain 4-line
> > analog phones with a light showing any lines in use, and a button
> > beneath that they press to choose an outbound line.
> >
> > Before I tell them that this is a silly retrograde behavior I thought
> > I'd check first to see how others of you out there might handle this
> > same desideratum.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > b.
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