[VoIP] Fedora Core 6 Install Help

[Dennis D Hock]

Shane,

I agree with what I have read and observed * offers a wealth of
posibilities.  The big challenge is getting the time in which to explore it
and learn about it.

Sounds like you have invested a fair amount into your insatlolation and it
also sounds like it shows it.

Dennis

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To: voip at ckts.info
From: Shane Young <voiptandem at shaneyoung.com>
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Date: 01/21/2007 12:25PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Fedora Core 6 Install Help

That sounds right and this is a good example.

They have virtually unlimited support resources unlike the nortel,
where their resources were very limited and expensive.

John Said "anyone using Asterisk and only Asterisk for their business
is headed for a train wreck"

Let's clarify that and say "anyone using Asterisk and only Asterisk
for their business without being able to support it is headed for a
train wreck"

So then we can simply replace Asterisk with Nortel and say "anyone
using Nortel and only Nortel for their business without being able to
support it is headed for a train wreck"

Asterisk is an extremely powerfull telephone system.  The way we use
it for CNET barely touches on what it can do as a communications
platform.

I use it in my home.  I pulled out my Panasonic KX-TD1232, put
2500/2554's everywhere and couldn't be happier.

When you call my house, Asterisk looks at your callerid.  If it's
marked private or unavailable, you are required to unblock it and
enter your number.
Then, it checks to see if you've called before.  If you haven't it
asks you for your name.  Then it annouces over the PA "There is a call
from ...." while it rings all the phones.  After 4 rings, it goes to
auto attendant.  When the caller selects a person they want to talk
to, their personal phone rings.  We then hear "There is a call for
Shane from xxxxx".  If they get voicemail, I get the message in my
email and on my cell phone which I can play without using up airtime.

When somone comes to the door, they press the dorophone button which
rings a bunch of phones and calls me on my call phone.  I could then
choose to let that person in by pressing a key on my phone.

Every hour on the hour from 08:00 until 22:00 we hear the time and
temp announced overhead.  During the holiday season, we also hear a
little holiday chime.  If our city has declared a snow emergency, that
is annouced as well.

You can dial a number and it will retreive the current weather forcast
from the national weather service and read it to you.

When somone unlocks the door with their passcard, it announces the
name of the person who came through the door.

In the morning, I get a wakeup call on the phone next to my bed.


I rent out a couple of the rooms in my house.  It was important to
make the phones work like phones would at anybody else's house, or as
close to it as I could.

You don't have to dial 9, you can dial 7 or 10 digits and you get
ringback almost immediately when the last digit is dialed.

Every phone has it's own phone number.

The system is infinately flexible.






Quoting Dennis D Hock <hockd at dteenergy.com>:

> John Shane Et all,
>
> Didn't the University of Oklahomo or Texas just announced late last year
> they are scrapping their Nortel Opt 81 and Opt 11 in favor of going all
> Asterisk?  Of course they have lots of inexpensive labor to help support
> it.
>
> Dennis Hock





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