[asterisk-users] Asterisk to PBX

[Paul Hales]

logan wrote:
> Thanks Paul. Your help is much appreciated here.
>
>   
No problem - been working on telephone systems for about 12 years now -
which doesn't even make me an old hand...

> Surely, Asterisk does that well, but Asterisk needs to have multiple phone 
> lines for that. I thought that a traditional switchboard made that happen 
> without multiple phone lines.
>   

Not really - but there's something you are missing in your understanding
and it will come to you soon enough....just keep reading and asking
questions.

Of course, Asterisk can place many calls down a network
connection/adsl/E1/DS3/etc.

> BTW, in Asterisk terminology a phone line means different PSTN connections 
> to the operator, right?
>   
Once again, I don't really understand this question.....

>   
>> Why would you guess this? We had 16 phone lines in the first business I
>> worked in.
>>     
>
> Yeah, that's fine, but even 16 phone lines don't mean you can have 16 desk 
> phones only or 16 simultaneous calls?
>   
We had about 40 phones. We could make 16 inbound/outbound calls, and as
many internal calls as we wanted to...
> Thanks I will take a look at asteriskdocs.
>   
Reading is a great way to learn things.

PaulH