[asterisk-users] Phone Newbie Questions

[Colin MacMillan]

Brian,

What you need are some sources of good information to get you started.
Based on what you wrote there is a lot to cover - impossible in an email.

Buy and read the book from this link -
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/

the pdf version can be found here but having one to read is much better.
http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11

With a background in Linux, once you learn a bit more setting up asterisk
will be easy.  And yes Asterisk can handle a 100+ users with relatively
standard hardware.

Colin

On 8/9/06, Brian Becker <usfbulls20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First let me just say that I am a total newbie when it comes to phones
> but I have several years of Linux and it experience.  I have been
> tasked with offering a competing solution to our current phone
> providers based on asterisk...
>
> To show my complete ignorance I am going to try and describe out
> setup, or as much as I know about it.  We have a PRI line with a
> single number that rolls over to several lines.  We also have a
> handful of analogue fax lines (are these part of the PRI...I dunno?).
> There are also a few 800 numbers...(not sure if that fact really
> matters to our phone system or not).  From my bit of research I am
> pretty sure asterisk does support PRI but please correct me if I am
> wrong 'cause none of this matters if it doesn't...
>
> First is asterisk really capable of supporting a 100+ user base of phones?
>
> I understand (or at least think I do) that I need one of the Digium
> Digital TDM Cards and that is where the PRI connection gets pluged
> into...how then do I connect the asterisk system to the phone network
> that exists in the office? (Told you I was clueless)
>
> Any guidance would be appreciated or even links to an introduction on
> phone systems would be great (pictures would help too ;) ).
>
> Brian
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