[Asterisk-Users] Receptionist Phones

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

Yes - set up about 10 of them at a business last year.

Monitoring is fine - picking up calls is a bit iffy at the best of times.
(that is, picking up a ringing call by pushing the extension button. *8
works fine)

Paul Hales
Technical Manager
AsteriskIT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell Long" <dlong at bestweb.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Receptionist Phones


> Do you have experience with the Snom phones? We have not had much
> success getting them to work under Asterisk as a receptionist phone.
> Specifically, the ability to monitor and pick up calls ringing on other
> extensions has been a problem.
>
> Darrell S. Long
> BestWeb Corporation
>
>
>
>
> pdhales at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> >Using a Snom phone, you can monitor a lot more extensions, so I figure
it's
> >got to be a Polycom issue.
> >
> >Paul Hales
> >Technical Manager
> >AsteriskIT
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Daniel Hazelbaker" <daniel at highdesertchurch.com>
> >To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> ><asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:28 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Receptionist Phones
> >
> >
> >
> >>Yes, I keep reading on the mailing list archives and the wikis that
> >>(wether or not it is indeed a Asterisk issue) Polycom keeps saying
> >>that an issue with Asterisk prevents you from monitoring more than 7
> >>total (not per sidecar) extensions.
> >>
> >>Daniel
> >>
> >>On Mar 27, 2006, at 12:08 PM, Justin Moore wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On 3/27/06, Daniel Hazelbaker <daniel at highdesertchurch.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>I have seen that the polycom setup (601+sidecar) works but only
> >>>>for up to 7 phones
> >>>>
> >>>From what I've seen, each sidecar supports up to 14 additional
> >>>stations. Three of those along with the 5 buttons on the 601 comes up
> >>>to 47 on my calculator. Is there a known problem with the 601+sidecars
> >>>and * that prevents the user from being able to monitor more than 7
> >>>extensions?
> >>>
> >>>Just curious as I've been leaning toward this for our receptionist as
> >>>well (only 12 extensions to monitor...)
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>Justin Moore
> >>>aka wantmoore
> >>>---------------------------------------
> >>>www.wantmoore.com
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