Kerry Garrison - Building your own PBX
What would it mean to you to have your own full-featured PBX system at your home or small office? What would it mean to you if you could build an entire PBX system (minus the phones) on hardware you probably have laying around, AND that it can probably also save you money on your phone bill? Sounds too hard to believe doesn't it, but using old hardware and some open source software, you really can build a commercial quality phone system that would normally cost thousands of dollars.
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posted by KerryG at 10:48 AM
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Kerry, this is completely off topic, but were you involved in some capacity with the development of the game clay fighter for SNES? I seem to remember the name coming up in the credits listing, and being that I try and keep an active tab on male Kerry's (you know they are few and far between), when I stumbled across your blog (thanks slashdot), some bells went off.
Sincerely,
Kerry Creeron
Roland,
It is more of a replacement for your existing PBX although I have heard of people going from an existing PBX into an Asterisk system by feeding it an extension. I don't know how to do that myself.
Kerry,
That was me! Us Kerry's have to stick together. The worst is people asking "how do you spell that". One reason for John Kerry to have one would have been for us to say "Like the President", now i just say "Like the guy who lost"
The key is figuring out how many CONCURRENT phone calls are taking place at any one time. From there, you can estimate 80k for each user.
http://geekgazette.com has more information. Basically the phones use the same network wiring as your computers and many phones have a passthru port so you go from the wall to the phone, and then the phone to your computer so you dont have to run any additional lines. VOIP phones range from $70 - $300 depending on features.
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