Brian,<br><br>What you need are some sources of good information to get you started. Based on what you wrote there is a lot to cover - impossible in an email.<br><br>Buy and read the book from this link - <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/">
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk/</a><br><br>the pdf version can be found here but having one to read is much better.<br><a href="http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11">http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11
</a><br><br>With a background in Linux, once you learn a bit more setting up asterisk will be easy. And yes Asterisk can handle a 100+ users with relatively standard hardware.<br><br>Colin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Becker</b> <<a href="mailto:usfbulls20@gmail.com">usfbulls20@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
First let me just say that I am a total newbie when it comes to phones<br>but I have several years of Linux and it experience. I have been<br>tasked with offering a competing solution to our current phone<br>providers based on asterisk...
<br><br>To show my complete ignorance I am going to try and describe out<br>setup, or as much as I know about it. We have a PRI line with a<br>single number that rolls over to several lines. We also have a<br>handful of analogue fax lines (are these part of the PRI...I dunno?).
<br>There are also a few 800 numbers...(not sure if that fact really<br>matters to our phone system or not). From my bit of research I am<br>pretty sure asterisk does support PRI but please correct me if I am<br>wrong 'cause none of this matters if it doesn't...
<br><br>First is asterisk really capable of supporting a 100+ user base of phones?<br><br>I understand (or at least think I do) that I need one of the Digium<br>Digital TDM Cards and that is where the PRI connection gets pluged
<br>into...how then do I connect the asterisk system to the phone network<br>that exists in the office? (Told you I was clueless)<br><br>Any guidance would be appreciated or even links to an introduction on<br>phone systems would be great (pictures would help too ;) ).
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