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More info?)
Piero <bitrippen@yahoo.it> wrote:
> Dear both,
> your answer are really ilarious, but can you please explain in more details ?
To learn more about Asterisk, you'd be well-served by reading as much as
you can stand of the voip-info wiki, http://www.voip-info.org/ -- as
well as the documentation on Digium's Web site.
Asterisk can definitely do what you're asking. 30 users is not very
many. You can support that many with a single E1 interface and a
channel bank if you have analog phones -- or with a single 100Mbit
Ethernet interface and a switch if you have SIP phones.
However, the configuration for your business is going to be different
from that for any other business. Asterisk is not a plug-and-play
system -- a PBX can't be; it has to be customized. You'll need to
choose hardware to support the technologies you need -- if you have DIDs
(incoming phone calls) on an E1 line, you need an E1 card, for instance.
This is a job for a full-time employee who will learn the system inside
and out, or for a consultant who already knows it.
What's your background? If you're a telecom guy, using Asterisk will
mean learning things like running a Linux server, building packages from
source, and configuring a PC server box with telecom hardware. If
you're a Linux guy (like me), using Asterisk will mean learning the
things that the telecom guys take for granted.
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