I agree with Dan. Asterisk is good but we did not want to base our
entire phone system on an open source project without any corporate
backing or tech support. The support is mainly users and group lists.
Asterisk running on a mac was even farther from my mind. Now after
saying that. Setting up asterisk and running it gave me a better
understanding of Voip terminology and how it works. We found things we
liked and things we didn't.
Try Asterisk, it's fun. The big vendors and some small ones are always
willing to come out to your location and give you a demo.
Nothing better than to see a cisco engineer look at a cisco phone
working without cisco Call Manager :)
--jeff
On Oct 27, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Shane Flynn wrote:
I have just started looking into this as a solution for our school.
unfortunately I know nothing about phone systems. Can anyone
recommend a good site for learning the lingo. I have read about
needing different hardware and that for Asterisk to work with macs,
but I don't really follow it all.
