[asterisk-users] Starting out

[Brian Rogan]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Timothy Parez wrote:
> We'll have about 10 internal phones.
> One of the phones should be like a central station, where all other  
> calls can be monitored (if possible)
> and from that phone the user should be able to press a button to take 
> over a call which is rining on another phone.
> 
> Then we need less advanced phones for the rest of us, but we should 
> still be able to  pick up calls that are rining
> on a phone in the same room. (if possible)
> 
> I live in Belgium and we are using ISDN lines.
> If I had to select phones from this page: 
> http://www.voipsolutions.be/index.php/cPath/54_24
> What whould you sugest and why ?

I have used the Aastra 9112i and it seems to be an a very solid, reliable
(not to mention inexpensive) phone.  It also has instructions on how to
configure it with Asterisk right out of the box, which is nice.  I would
recommend it without reservation.

You might also want to look at the Aastra480i for your central station.
One of the neat things that the phone offers is a whole XML based
markup language that allows you to design custom menus which call HTTP
pages and stuff (much like HTML).  This might be just the thing for
being able to take over any current calls from the central phone.

--Brian