[Asterisk-Users] Small office with all employee's offsite

[Jason Marshall]

I'm sure these questions have been answered at some point, but I'm too new 
to this stuff to know the right words to plug into the search function to 
find what I need.

I have never touched Asterisk before, but have wanted to for some time. 
Now I finally think I'm going to bite the bullet, as I have a real-world 
application for it!

My office consists of two employees, neither of whom work in the office 
physically.  Here is what I'd like to do.  Hopefully someone can tell me 
what I need to do/buy/configure/install to make it work...

I want all calls to come into the Asterisk box in the main office.

I want all incoming calls to be recorded (not as concerned about outgoing 
calls).

Both employees have regular POTS telephone lines (one fellow has a land 
line and a cell, the other has just a land-line).

I'd like callers to be presented with a short menu of options, the 
behavior of which might change depending on the time of day (for instance, 
at night, I'd like both the "sales" and "support" calls to go to one 
employee, while during the day I'd like sales to go to one person, and 
support to go to another.  I'd also like to have an answering machine 
(built into Asterisk?) pick up calls that go unanswered.

I guess that's about it.  I looked at the Digium TDMxx cards, but don't 
really know what I need in the way of FXO's and FXS's to pull off what I 
want to do.

As an added bonus, if someone knows of a VOIP adapter that allows one to 
plug an analog phone into it AND accept both VOIP and normal phone calls 
to the same phone, that would be cool (and might make things easier to 
configure, without making each extension 100% dependent on VOIP).

Thanks in advance.  I'm really looking forward to finally doing something 
with Asterisk, one of the most exciting projects I've looked at for a 
while!!

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| Jason Marshall, marshalj at spots.ab.ca. Spots InterConnect, Inc. Calgary, AB |
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