[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk based IVR/VoiceMail Server for a Unified Messaging suite

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

I am pretty sure Asterisk can handle point 1.

PaulH

> ammad jami <candidcarper at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Please go through this mail, it won't take much time.
> 
> For a Unified Messaging system, I have to develop an IVR/Voicemail 
> system
> based on asterisk.
> **
>  Following are the details of the voice mail / IVR (Interactive voice
> Response) system to be developed:
> 
>    1. Develop using Asterisk
>    2. 100 simultaneous users
>    3. Integrate with @mail ( www.atmail.com) our email program *(
>    developed in perl )*
>    4. Provide Fax integration
>    5. Provide information about the message store, e.g. you have two
>    voice messages and three text messages (emails). Integrate with 
> backend
>    database.
>    6. Accept response through telephone keypad or through voice response
>    7. Forward all voicemail to email as well
>    8. Users can access voicemail through telephone, cell phone, or
>    through a desktop/webmail client
>    9. Send SMS or IM alerts on receipt of specified messages
>    10. Identify caller/device and provide him options accordingly. If 
> the
>    owner of the mailbox calls it should give different options than if 
> somebody
>    else calls possibly to leave a message. In-fact there are three 
> different
>    types of callers the system should recognize: the owner, other 
> subscribers
>    to our system, everybody else.
>    11. Receive voicemails from outside through telephony devices (dialed
>    in), and also receive voicemail from within the system through email 
> or
>    desktop client.
>    12. Integration with VOIP service/connections and DTMF connection.
>    13. Integration with IM
>    14. Obviously provide remote access
>    15. Text to speech for reading emails or just their headers
> 
> Please tell me,
> What asterisk offers by default for my system?
> What areas I need to work to achieve the mentioned features?
> What specific hardware(cards,servers etc.) should I look for this 
> system?
> 
> I appreciate any comments/suggessions/queries.
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> 
> Jami