[asterisk-users] Phone Newbie Questions

[Tom Vile]

Yes it supports PRI

On 8/9/06, Colin MacMillan <macmillanc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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