[tortech] PBX

[Blake Crosby]

Hello,

My parents own a restaurant... They are expanding. With that expansion
they also want a more sophisticated telephone system than the simple
2-line one they have now.

In short:

- Incoming: One single number to call (with extensions, no direct
dialing needed)
- Outgoing: Multiple outgoing lines
- Voicemail for each extension
- Wireless handsets.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to who they can contact to get such
a system installed? They are going to need to have support incase
something goes wrong. I dont have the time to put some sort of fancy
asterisk system up and running.

Blake

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 03:59:14PM -0400, Blake Crosby wrote:
| My parents own a restaurant... They are expanding. With that expansion
| they also want a more sophisticated telephone system than the simple
| 2-line one they have now.
|
| In short:
|
| - Incoming: One single number to call (with extensions, no direct
| dialing needed)
| - Outgoing: Multiple outgoing lines
| - Voicemail for each extension
| - Wireless handsets.
|
| Does anyone have any suggestions as to who they can contact to get such
| a system installed? They are going to need to have support incase
| something goes wrong. I dont have the time to put some sort of fancy
| asterisk system up and running.

It sure looks like a lot of work to setup asterisk.

On the other hand having setup and used a nortel BCM3000, I figure
anything must be less work and more flexible and a lot cheaper than
something from one of the big telco guys. I also can't imagine things
having worse documentation than the nortel did.

Of course if you don't mind paying a few hundred dollars to a support
guy each time you want to make a small change to the phone system, I
guess those guys work just fine. :)

For multiple lines on one number you probably have to ask the phone
company what the options are for doing that. The one I used we only had
1 phone line (although we sure could have used a few more quite often).

Len Sorensen