[Tfug] Asterisk PBX

[Steven Bowers]

I may be able to leverage a couple of Cisco 7940 and Polycom SIP hard phones through work, if that would help.

----- Original Message -----
From: Harry McGregor
Sent: 12/27/2006 11:22:14 AM
To: tfug at tfug.org
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Asterisk PBX

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> A few additional notes.
> 
> CIS 225 or reasonable working knowledge of Linux would be a prerequisite.
> 
> I would be teaching more of the Linux install and TCP/IP areas
> 
> George would be teaching more of the Asterisk and Telephony areas.
> 
> Suggestions of meeting times would also be nice (please send them via
> email to George as well).
> 
> Hardware could be an issue (both quality and availability), but we
> should be able to leverage IP technologies to escape most of the
> availability problem (soft phones, SIP and IAX PSTN access accounts). 
> Quality, well if you have taken any of my classes, you know what you are
> in for (failing hard drives mostly).
> 
> We may even be able to convince Nick Lopez to give a guest lecture or
> two on a few areas.
> 
> 
>                                   Harry
> 
> 
> George Cohn wrote:
> > I don't know how many folks on this list are interested in Asterisk, the 
> > open source PBX.
> >
> > I've been talking to Harry and Ron Evans at PCC, trying to get them to 
> > offer a class.  The problem with offering any new class is getting 
> > enough people to sign up to make it worthwhile.
> >
> > The target would be 10-12 confirmed students.  Anyone interested, drop 
> > me a line and I will put together a list and see if we can talk them 
> > into offering it.
> >
> > In the meantime, I've built at least a half dozen Debian based Asterisk 
> > boxes.  One even had a T1 card in it and was interfaced to a Nortel Opt 
> > 81C PBX via primary rate ISDN over a T1. I was able to provide complete 
> > functionality including conference rooms and an interface to their wi-fi 
> > network so I could receive all my office calls on my UTStarcom wi-fi 
> > phone anywhere on campus.
> >
> > I don't work there any more but if anyone is interested in building a 
> > box, I would be happy to help.  If the PCC thing doesn't work out, maybe 
> > a few people would be interested in meeting somewhere on a couple of 
> > weekends and learning a little about it?
> >
> > All we need is a box with a small hard drive and can load Debian from a 
> > net install.  I have a spare Digium FXO-FXS card we could use or we 
> > could just use ztdummy and use something like one of the free or cheap 
> > soft phone services like Broadcom to demonstrate interfacing to the PSTN.
> >
> > George Cohn
> > Tucson
> >
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