[wellylug] Asterisk PABX - Does Any one use this?

[Chris Hodgetts]

Thanks for that, I may have a play with it next week at work.

I had a long talk to Jamie B last night about it, and I am looking
forward to getting it installed, even if I just do it at home. for the 3
of us :)

Yeha , the soft client, I am not too impressed with them - personally I
would like a nice piece of hardware on my desk :)

We have just brought a MaxTNT for work, so there may be investgiation on
using that to the PSTN network.

Thanks again

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 10:36, ed hintz wrote:
> On 2/21/04, chris at archnetnz.com thus spake:
> 
> >I am looking at using the Asterisk PABX at work as a play toy / demo'ing
> >VoIP and so forth, as there was talk about it at work, so wanna get
> >thigns rolling :)
> >
> >But, does anyone know if you "need" the ISDN hardware to make the system
> >go?  - As in not making external to the POTS network, but if we just
> >wanted to demo it internally could we do this with out the hardware and
> >just install the software?
> 
>     Yeah, it works fine without a hard link to the PSTN. I set one up
> yesterday with a couple of local extensions and an IP link to the US PSTN
> (voicepulse.com) for playing around. You could in theory use soft clients
> as well, though if you're trying to sell a PHB or two I'd highly
> recommend getting an ATA-186 or the like so that it feels like a real
> phone system. Most people will have a bad impression of the soft clients
> and that will make it an uphill battle gaining acceptance. But you could
> easily install it and play around while waiting on the adapters to
> arrive, the only problem with soft clients is the public perception of them.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ed Hintz
> ed at hintz.org
> 
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