Re: Voice Mail - DIY anyone?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cisco phones will work with Asterisk, however they need to have the 
microcode replaced first.  Easy to do but it has been almost four years 
and I don't quite remember the steps, just that it was easy to do.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 12/5/2011 2:29 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
> IIRC, the Cisco phone system at it's core is Asterisk.
>
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> Mike Wills
> http://mikewills.me
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>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Peter Dow<petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > >  Hi Luke,
> > >
> > >  I got involved in choosing a new phone system for my daughters' school.
> > >  The system they got is called PBXact, and is based on Asterisk.  There
> > >  are other systems out there also based on Asterisk -- TrixBox, and
> > >  others whose names I've forgotten.
> > >
> > >  One thing to be aware of is that the phones that work with these digital
> > >  PBXs are actually computers.  When a phone is powered up, it will
> > >  download customization "scripts" for its programmable keys  from
> > >  Aasterisk.  PBX vendors do not support all phones out there.  The school
> > >  got Aastra phones which are relatively cheap, but now that they want to
> > >  switch PBX vendors, we've found that the phones don't play well with
> > >  other systems.
> > >
> > >  I downloaded the free version of Trixbox (from trixbox.org) and
> > >  installed it on a spare PC, but haven't had time to play with it yet.
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  *Peter Dow*  /
> > >  Dow Software Services, Inc.
> > >  909 793-9050
> > >  pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  /
> > >
> > >  On 12/5/2011 9:56 AM, Harman, Roger wrote:
> > > >  >  They were my first stop also.  Just wondering if anyone on the list has
> > >  actually built something out of it.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  Thanks.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  -----Original Message-----
> > > >  >  From:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > >  On Behalf Of Luke Gerhardt
> > > >  >  Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2011 10:53 AM
> > > >  >  To:pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >  >  Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Voice Mail - DIY anyone?
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  Asterisk usually seems to come up in conversations about
> > > >  >  rolling-your-own phone systems.  I have no experience using it, but that
> > > >  >  would be the first place I'd look...
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  http://www.asterisk.org/
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  On 12/3/2011 1:00 PM,pctech-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> > > > >  >>  message: 3
> > > > >  >>  date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:57:51 +0000
> > > > >  >>  from: "Harman, Roger"<Roger.Harman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >  >>  subject: [PCTECH] Voice Mail - DIY anyone?
> > > > >  >>
> > > > >  >>  Just curious if anyone has dabbled in building IVR or voice mail
> > >  systems using TAPI cards.  One of our smaller locations lost their voice
> > >  mail and I'm looking for an inexpensive, but decent, 8-port system.
> > > > >  >>
> > > > >  >>  Hardware or software recommendations?
> > > > >  >>
> > > > >  >>  Thanks.
> > >  --