[K12OSN] phone system

[Robert Moskowitz]

Paul Lemke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	This is not closely related to the list. but I don't know who else
> to ask. The school I'm currently helping has about 10 rooms. They want to
> put some kind of phone system in place to have a phone in each room. (why
> they didn't do this when they built the school boggles my mind) We already
> have cat5e ran to each room where the phone would go. 
>   
I odn't have time to go through this whole thread this morning.  Too 
much to do.

But go get Trixbox.

It is pretty much a drop-in and use.

there is any number of FXO multi-port cards to add to your server.  And 
any number of SIP phones or ATAs.  And the Trixbox gang are adding 
scripts to configure some of those.

Also Asterfax is being intergrated into Trixbox.

By adding things like e164.org, SRV DNS records and a few other odds and 
ends and you might be supprised about how much of your calls stay on the 
net.
> 	The question is. are there any open source implementations of a
> commercial phone system? Let's just say the bid we got to do the phone
> system was a little high for our low budget. So I'd figure I'd ask some
> other school's what they do. I was thinking of a VOIP setup utilizing our
> totally underutilized Fedora server. 
>
> 	Here are the basic requirements:
> 1. Use phones (not software phones)
> 2. Voicemail
> 3. Some kind of "Public Announcement" system
>
> Thoughts? Or can someone point me in the right direction? 
>
> Thanks!
> Paul 
>
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