>I'm going to be helping to set * up for the company I work for, and in >doing all my research about it, have found it to be a very viable >solution for my SOHO side business at home. I do however have a few >questions, forgive me if they're stupid but I'm new to all of this.
OK. I'll bite. >1. I want to be able to handle 3 analogue phone lines, with a regular >bell telephone line coming into the house. In "phone lingo" the phone sets are the "station" side of the PBX. The lines coming into the house are the "trunk" side. Sometimes, but not often, the station side is called "line-side" but usually to referrence interconnecting tie lines. >three FXS ports and one FXO port? Correct. >can I 'chain' my phones together from the one FXS port ... Yes, but they will all be the same extension just like all the phones in your house and not be individually addressable (dialable). > upgrade to VOIP capabilities for my SOHO Long Distance, is this as >simple as getting another card with a T1 interface ... No. A T1 interface that goes directly into the PBX (Asterisk) is usually for voice (23B+D (23 bearer channels for voice + one data channel for signalling)). You will most likely already have a 100BT connection on your server and that is where you will get the most cost effective in/out IP connectivity to your box. You will then connect your network - or that segment of your network - to the outside IP world either directly or via firewalls/routers. >Does * support 'ring tone identification' ? Yes. > Relating back to the splitting of the phone lines,... See above. Matt, you really need to spend _a_lot_ of time reading the documentation and playing with the system. There is no substitute for hands-on experience. I have had a long history in data and telephony and I still played with the product for 4 months before I asked a question. Until you spend that amount of time learning you will not have the background to understand the answers that people give you. Most people on the list won't answer a question like this one because it has been well shown that they are wasting their time teaching someone who is not ready for it yet. The other side of the coin is that the people on this list that have spend copious months of their time gaining expertise are perfectly willing to support peers who have the invested in the same manner. They are not however, willing to spoon feed people who have not yet, or appear unwilling to make that investment themselves. Those people need to hire consultants. If you do want to hire a consultant - which there is nothing wrong with do so - just ask for such on the list and there will be manny people willing to provide rates for their services. I know that email is a cold medium and this may come across badly at first, but that does in fact represent the culture of a user community. You need to read up first to gain a minimum level of expertise _as_a_user_ in order to productively take part in the user community. >Hopefully I'm clear on my questions, >Thanks a lot in advance. >Matt Gibson >Unix Administrator >Experthost / NJ Tech Solutions -- David Cook _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
