[Asterisk-Users] I need feed back on how an Aastra VentureIP 4FXO

[Tim Litwiller]

Well we have 3 sales people that are out visiting customers 50% or more 
of the time and it will get more as we got them laptops now.  And if we 
can forward the calls to their cell phones with our phone system instead 
of giving the customers their cell numbers and then hanging up on the 
customer it will provide a better experience  for the customer and 
better control for us.  It may still be overkill but 4 lines aren't 
enough in the busy season and if we have 3 calling in and getting 
forwarded thru another to cells that is six already. And business is 
growing so we want room to expand before having to upgrade again.




pdhales at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> 8 lines for 10 phones is overkill....really....
>
> PaulH
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> From: "Tim Litwiller" <tim at litwiller.net>
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> 4FXO
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>   
>> Thanks for the heads up - I didn't see anything that said it did work
>> with asterisk so I thought I better ask.
>>
>> So if you where setting up a 6 - 8 telephone line system with 10 - 12
>> phones and trying to stay under $3000 for the system and phones what
>> would you suggest.  It sounds like if I can't do it for $3000 or under
>> we will just stay with our old - outdated - partially functional phone
>> system.
>>
>> I can probably reuse a workstation machine. And use AAH to make install
>> and configuration easy.  But that leaves some device ( suggest one to
>> me) for
>> * 8 fxo ports -And **12 voip phones
>> * I think I'll just pass the fax/dsl line directly to the fax machine
>> and dsl modem since we don't use it for anything else anyways and that
>> means we don't have to worry about receiving faxes thru asterisk.
>> ** I'd like to use the new Sipura 941's but may have to go with
>> grandstream 2000's because of cost.
>>
>> We were supposed to have this done in November but cost issues have
>> pushed it back this far already - so I'm not sure when this will happen.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Cory Andrews wrote:
>>     
>>> The Aastra VentureIP system used a semi proprietary, non SIP
>>> protocol.  I do not think it would integrate with Asterisk very well.
>>>
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Chavez"
>>> <cursor at telecomabmex.com>
>>> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
>>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 6:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] I need feed back on how an Aastra
>>> VentureIP 4FXO
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:22:51 -0600, Tim Litwiller wrote
>>>>         
>>>>> works with Asterisk.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm thinking I'd need 2 to support 6-8 lines - Or suggest some other
>>>>> equipment that will provide up to 8 fxo ports and connect to asterisk.
>>>>>
>>>>> for future projects I'd also like something with 2 fxo ports and 4 -
>>>>> 5 fxs ports - I suppose a digium card would do fine for 2 fxo and
>>>>> 2fxs and I could do a sipura 2002 for 2 more.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>     I do not think that the Venture IP will work with Asterisk at
>>>> all.  As
>>>> far as I know it is a self contained system.  The gateway unit will
>>>> autoconfigure the phones so they work together.  The firmware for the
>>>> phones
>>>> is not the same as the one used for SIP and Asterisk.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Carlos Chavez
>>>> Director de Tecnología
>>>> Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de México S.A. de C.V.
>>>> Tel: +52-55-91169161 Ext 2001
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