On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jonathan Disher wrote: > I am looking to replace the phone system at my father's shop with an > Asterisk box and some Cisco phones, but one piece of the > implementation is tripping me up. He has two buildings (the office, > and the shop proper), separated by about 3-400 yards. Currently with > the ancient Meridian system installed, there is a paging intercom (to > page employees, etc) on a dedicated extension - play a loud tone, then > set up a 2 way channel. Anyone got any ideas, hardware wise, on how I > might implement this with an Asterisk system?
Do you have some sort of IP connectivity between the sites? 400 yards is a too long for copper cat5, but can be done with fibre, wireless or free-space optics... (which I don't personally recommend!) (And if you haven't IP how are you talking to the phones between sites?) So what's to stop you from putting a Cisco phone into auto-answer mode and calling it via ths Page() application? And if a Cisco can't work in this manner, there are plenty of others that will. Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
