RE: Linux-based voice mail system wanted

Simon,

I would like to follow this through a little more too.

The PCI cards for asterisk are probably quite competitive elsewhere but 
there is some very inexpensive PABX equipment available locally.  We use 
TCL and we have found it to be quite adequate for our purposes.  I presume 
that the cards must be very similar so it would be interesting to know if 
"standard" locally made stuff could be adapted for use.

At the time that we setup, it was not cost competitive for us to import the 
US cards and buy a PC.



At 09:49 AM 16/05/2004 +0800, you wrote:

>Hi Graham,
>
>Thanks, you and Bjorn both gave me the interesting and helpful lead to
>Asterix.  I asked a (senior) friend at Cisco Systems if he had any knowledge
>of it, and he told me that "it is a competitive product to Cisco Call
>Manager" so I guess that puts Asterix in good company.
>
>I'm disheartened by your suggestion that the hardware necessary may make a
>good FOSS solution prohibitively expensive.  I guess that the Chinese PBX
>doesn't do all that clever IP stuff though.  Hrm.  Will ask for quotes from
>Hong Kong and report back to the list.
>
>/src
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: blug-general-bounces-+qp3TudyjKPvfBIPTTProkB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org [mailto:blug-general-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Graham Brown
> > Sent: Friday, 14 May 2004 10:45 AM
> > To: Beijing LUG general non-technical discussion list - Not publicly
> > posted
> > Subject: RE: [blug-general] Linux-based voice mail system wanted
> >
> > Simon,
> >
> > I have been looking at this in the abstract too.
> >
> > There is a program called asterix (as I recall) but it depends upon cards
> > to be installed.  The cost of the cards is in excess of the cost of buying
> > a Chinese (pabx) for me, but I do not know enough about telephones to know
> > if it is adaptable to work as voice mail with a regular pabx.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 07:41 AM 14/05/2004 +0800, you wrote:
> > > > I know a little about telephony.
> > > > To point you into the correct direction
> > > > two items have to be clarified.
> > > >
> > > > First issue is protocol.
> > > > Which one: IP telephony, analog, or digital ?
> > >
> > >Analog POTS coming in.  Digital over the PBX I guess.
> > >
> > > > Second hardware.
> > > > Do you have 50 lines now?
> > >
> > >Nope, expected soon.  Might grow to 200.
> > >
> > > > Are they coming through the local telecomm
> > > > or routed through a PBX?
> > >
> > >When installed, they'll be coming in from the building's main
> > distribution
> > >frame.  We can grab them before they hit any PBX.  We want the Linux box
> > to
> > >do all PBX functionality.
> > >
> > > > Yeah, that info is vital.
> > > >
> > > > Aside from those items, the experience I have had
> > > > was building systems:
> > > >
> > > > A unix/linux box for logic ( class 5 svc voice,fax,email )
> > > > A Dialogic box for text-to-speech, prompts, tones.
> > > > And a small switch ( like eXcel ) for connectivity to POTS.
> > > > The switch basically accepted a T1 connect ( E1 in europe )
> > >
> > >Okay, thanks Kerry, that is helpful.
> > >
> > >Best,
> > >
> > >Simon
> > >
> > >
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Graham Brown

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