[Asterisk-Users] Re: Earpiece Connections

[Michael at matraex.com]

Andrew,

I need a keypad-less phone to listen and talk.

I would like to have up to 10 of these and I would like to have each of
them have their own extension so that calls can be routed directly to
them.
I would then be able to trigger the Pickup and Hangup functions on the
server itself.

Have you heard about a resource for these types of devices?

Thanks

Michael
 
From: "Andrew Thompson" <asteriskuser at aktzero.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Earpiece Connections
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:33:57 -0500
Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <Michael at matraex.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 7:31 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Earpiece Connections


> Does anyone know of a piece of hardware that can allow multiple 
> earpices to be connected directly to a server running Asterisk.

Just to listen? Or, do you mean a keypad-less phone(listen and talk)?

> I hope I am not being to vague but basically I am looking to allow a 
> call center to user the server to do all of the "Pickup" and "Hangup" 
> functions. The operators will merely have to have th earpiece in their

> ear.  I have seen serial pieces of hardware that do this (41D switch 
> matrix?) But I need to find one that asterisk can use.  I will then 
> build some custom scripts to handle the "Pickup" and "Hangup" parts of

> it.
>
> Anyway any ideas or websites I could research for this type of thing 
> would be most helpful.
>
> Thanks
>
> Micahel

I don't think you're going to be able to get any simpler than
AgentLogin, where the user dials into a queue, and stays on the line
receiving calls as they come in. You'll still need some kind of phone
device, like a channel bank to split calls to regular handsets, or some
IP phones.

Unless I really don't understand what you're trying to do?

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