Re:PBX

[Adam Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From          : klug>klug-request
 To            : adam
 Subject       : PBX
 Date          : 01/01/70 01:01


>>Also if anyone has any Lucent based Winmodems just lying around,  I'd
>>like to borrow one to test a Linux product that uses them as phone
>>channels in a soft PBX arrangement.
>Can you elaborate (enlighten me) on the PBX thing?~

http://www.asteriskpbx.com/main/index.html

>Is this for work or
>personal?~

Well, I'll try it out at home, and if it seems to work I might suggest it
for the office.  I do that quite a bit.  A have a large old house out of
which I rent rooms,  so I have a "cage o' guinee pigs" always available.
They don't seem to might though.

>I read about a home PBX deal-a-ma-jigger a while ago in some
>Windows magazine and it was prohibitively expensive.~

Yep, there are lots of these "IP telephony integration" wonders floating
around right now.  I have it on good hand authority that the ones from
Ciso and executone are definitely NOT ready for prime time.  But I won't
repeat that in court.  The NBX system from 3Com I have it is quite functional
and we may be purchasing one for our main office in the near future (phones
plug into ethernet, system is self contained, no need for a Telephony server).

>I have since tried
>to research other, similar PBX stuff, but have not been able to find the
>original or similar products.  Do you know where to find any such
>information?~

If you want specific contacts with people to talk to I can get you those, but
we should probably do it off list, as this list is hosted by a NPO, and I
don't want to go anywhere near violating the usage agreement.~

I have no financial or political relationship with any of the products,
projects, or companies mentioned above.