[Asterisk-Users] Difference between Asterisk and Asterisk@home

[Jeff Busch]

my $0.02...
 
I have implemented *@H 0.9 in a Real Estate/Legal office with 6 phones
and 3 incoming lines using TDM04B card and Polycom/Sipura phones.
 
I am about to implement 3 more systems (*@H 1.3) for a construction
company.  One will be 6 phones and 4 PSTN lines using SPA-3000 ATA's.
The second will be 2x TDM04B connecting to 6 lines to start with 10
Polycom IP-501 phones.  The third system has not yet been designed. but
will be 4 lines and 6 - 7 phones.
 
The Real Estate system is running *@H 0.9 and has been running for 59
days since the last reboot, which I did when I added the Polycom phones.
This is a fairly light-use system averaging about 1700 minutes/mo in
usage.  It is setup to have an Auto-Attendant when no one is present and
to have the phones answered live when the receptionist is at her desk.
I setup a "* + number" code for the receptionist to dial to toggle the
Auto-attendant.
 
As of yet I have not run into any problems running the one system in
production, and we are confident in the other 3 systems that are about
to be implemented.  The systems that will be implemented soon will have
pretty high call volume, as these are for a construction job trailers on
pretty large scale projects.
 
I started off by exploring Asterisk and actually built a couple of test
systems without using *@H.  I was able to figure out the configurations
and actually had no problems setting up the test systems (for me it was
pretty simple even though I had never touched linux before).  I created
a set of config files that I was going to copy from server to server to
aid the implementation, and I was ready to build the server for the Real
Estate office...  
 
Then, I ran across *@H and after playing with it a little bit determined
that it provided a quicker setup process and provided all the features
that we would need.  Clearly, there are some things that are easier to
do without *@H due to the limitations provided by AMP... but I have
found that for these small office implementations, this has not been an
issue.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Jeff Busch
busch.consult at gmail.com


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael
Felder
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 8:17 PM
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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Difference between Asterisk and Asterisk at home


Hello 
What is the difference between these 2 version of Asterisk in terms of
functionality.
For a small office am I going to run into problems if I use the easy
version...
 
Mike
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