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

Mon Jan 16 21:28:18 MST 2006

Point taken!

Then an T1/E1 is the way to go.

PaulH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Litwiller" <tim at litwiller.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] I need feed back on how an Aastra VentureIP
4FXO

> 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tim Litwiller" <tim at litwiller.net>
> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> > <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] I need feed back on how an Aastra
VentureIP
> > 4FXO
> >
> >
> >
> >> 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 we will just stay with our old - outdated - partially functional phone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.
> >>>
> >>> Cory J Andrews
> >>> ++++++++++++
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> >>> email - Cory at VOIPSupply.com
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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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