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Posted by Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, th on June 25, 2005, 7:27 pm
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> I have a small business and I would like to find a cheap way to make
> phone extensions for all my employees under one phone number like
> 555-5555 ex 2 and things like that and I am wondering if a systems
like
> this would work on VOIP like Vonage.
>
> Thanks.
Many people don't realize that with these VOIP "solutions", if you lose
power, say in a storm or an earthquake, you're SOL as far as phone
service goes. And heaven help you if you have an emergency and need to
call 911! I think if I went to VOIP, the only thing I'd use it for
would be long distance dialing.
In any case, you need more than one phone line in the case of above. So
if they're separate numbers, then callers can call each number direct.
Or a PBX could route calls to different people in the office.
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Posted by Tony P. on June 26, 2005, 1:01 pm
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>
> > I have a small business and I would like to find a cheap way to make
> > phone extensions for all my employees under one phone number like
> > 555-5555 ex 2 and things like that and I am wondering if a systems
> like
> > this would work on VOIP like Vonage.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Many people don't realize that with these VOIP "solutions", if you lose
> power, say in a storm or an earthquake, you're SOL as far as phone
> service goes. And heaven help you if you have an emergency and need to
> call 911! I think if I went to VOIP, the only thing I'd use it for
> would be long distance dialing.
>
> In any case, you need more than one phone line in the case of above. So
> if they're separate numbers, then callers can call each number direct.
> Or a PBX could route calls to different people in the office.
All my routing gear is on a UPS with a one hour runtime. Granted, it's
not the 48 hour float I'd get from circuit switched. Rhode Island is
also the first state served by Vonage that's had E-911 for many months
now. NY is next.
In the event of any natural disaster I'd say you'd be hard pressed to
even draw dial tone. Considering that most CO's are designed 4:1 even in
the best of circumstances the chances are slim.
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Posted by shido on June 30, 2005, 4:42 am
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jnmhorn wrote:
> I have a small business and I would like to find a cheap way to make
> phone extensions for all my employees under one phone number like
> 555-5555 ex 2 and things like that and I am wondering if a systems like
> this would work on VOIP like Vonage.
>
> Thanks.
>
Here's an example of what you dialplan would look like if you used
Asterisk (http://www.asterisk.org)
[inbound]
exten => s,1,Answer
exten => s,2,Wait(1)
exten => s,3,DigitTimeout,10
exten => s,4,ResponeTimeout,10
exten => s,5,BackGround(mygreeting)
include => myextensions
[myextensions]
exten => _XXXX,1,Macro(staff,$) ; just number your ip phones
[voicemail]
exten => _69XXXX,1,VoicemailMain,$@defaul
exten => _69XXXX,2,Hangup
exten => 6969,1,VoicemailMain
[macro-staff]
exten => s,1,Playback,transfer
exten => s,2,Dial(SIP/$|20|r)
exten => s,3,Voicemail(u$) ; plays unavailable message
exten => s,103,Voicemail(b$) ; plays busy message
[outbound]
exten => _1N.,1,Dial(IAX2/user@NuFone/$)
Now that doesnt look all that difficult does it?
We have inbound, outbound and your extensions. Of course you can use FXS
cards or channel banks , T1's E1's SIP, etc with Asterisk.
If you have any questions reply here but be sure to cc greg@nufone.net
as I rarely check this thread and have been out of the forum/newsgroup
help mode for a long time.
-Greg
IM: shido6@msn.com
NuFone is 2 cents/minute for US and Canada.
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