[Asterisk-Users] Toshiba Strata DK-280 support?

[Charles Marcus]

> I run Asterisk partnered up to the 280 (424 for us). We have a 6 cabinet 
> installation of the Toshiba so I understand you dilemma. There are some 
> quirks with the 280 that make it a challenge to use Asterisk with, but 
> it's do-able. Keep in mind, you can move to the CTX or the CIX and still 
> keep a lot of your investment and those systems play much better with 
> Asterisk.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your response. I am investigating Asterisk as a possibility 
for our company, but I am not a 'phone guy', I am the Network Admin. I 
sent our phone guy a link to the Asterisk site, but he hasn't had time 
to look at it yet. I am simply trying to get a head start for him. He 
seemed to think it highly unlikely that we would be able to use any of 
our current system with it, but he admitted that not knowing anything 
about Asterisk, it was certainly possible he was wrong.

So, that said - after reading a little on CTX/CIX - those are just VoIP, 
but is this just a card added to our cabinet, then we need to get all 
new phones?

We are not that big of a company. We only have 35 phones now, with a 
potential to double or so in the next year or two. I really don't see us 
growing past 100 phones in the next 5 years, and our plan is to have the 
company sold well before then. We don't have a huge need for VoIP, 
although the boss may decide to give that a try some day. I still have 
concerns about reliability/voice quality/security myself.

So, how much work are we talking about to get our current system to play 
nice with Asterisk? Will we lose any functionality? Gain any? Do you 
know of any technical how-to's that my phone guy would be able to answer 
these questions from? Are you available to concult? If so, for how much?

Sorry to hit you with so much, but if I don't ask... ;)

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Best regards,

Charles