[asterisk-users] Asterisk to PBX

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Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for the response.

I'm a novice so pardon me for the stupid questions. I thought that maybe the 
PSTN lines don't allow more than 1 simultaneous calls on a line, but on GSM 
it might be possible.

I basically want to know how Asterisk can dial out calls from the lines 
connected to it. Ideally I want to make out as many calls from the lines 
connected to my Asterisk box.

I have a few related questions, again pardon me if I'm a novice. How did PBX 
in days when didn't have Asterisk worked? If a company wanted to give desk 
phones to all the employees then it would have a switchboard which would 
route the calls. Now in this case I'm guessing that the company had only one 
PSTN line, but somehow the switchboard let everyone make calls and receive 
calls at the same time. So is it possible to have the switchboard and have 
it connect to Asterisk who can there by use these lines?

Paul, could you also describe a bit about hook flash?

Thanks.

Best Regards,
Hitesh

>
> Are you talking about using hook flash to change between active calls?
> Or the more interesting facilities available on the 3G (and beyond)
> networks?
>
> regards,
>
> PaulH
>