[K12OSN] phone system

[rmcdaniel at indata.us]

As a matter of fact, yes!  It is called Asterisk, www.asterisk.org.  It
is an awesome system with a lot of support.  You can buy the fxo and
fxs cards from the people that developed Asterisk, www.digium.com, for
solid support and integration.  Give it a look.


ron



Ronald R. McDaniel
Conecuh County Schools
(251) 578-7073 x26
(251) 238-1890 cell
1*4238*104 SouthernLinc
rmcdaniel at indata.us

"try to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are"


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [K12OSN] phone system
> From: "Paul Lemke" <lists at paulandmichelle.net>
> Date: Thu, August 10, 2006 8:18 am
> To: "'Support list for open source software in schools.'"
> <k12osn at redhat.com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 	This is not closely related to the list. but I don't know who else
> to ask. The school I'm currently helping has about 10 rooms. They want to
> put some kind of phone system in place to have a phone in each room. (why
> they didn't do this when they built the school boggles my mind) We already
> have cat5e ran to each room where the phone would go. 
> 
> 	The question is. are there any open source implementations of a
> commercial phone system? Let's just say the bid we got to do the phone
> system was a little high for our low budget. So I'd figure I'd ask some
> other school's what they do. I was thinking of a VOIP setup utilizing our
> totally underutilized Fedora server. 
> 
> 	Here are the basic requirements:
> 1. Use phones (not software phones)
> 2. Voicemail
> 3. Some kind of "Public Announcement" system
> 
> Thoughts? Or can someone point me in the right direction? 
> 
> Thanks!
> Paul 
> 
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