[Cialug] Asterisk Training

[Tom Pohl]

I could probably put some stuff together.  My home asterisk box is  
built by hand, but for corporate use, we use Trixbox (we have TB2.0  
and TB2.2) so it's not like we generated the dial plan by hand.  We  
do have a few custom "applications" (macros) that we wrote, but the  
free pbx interface has been great because we've turned everything  
over to less technical people to manage day to day changes and  
additions.

Actually, if people are really interested in learning about a big  
install of asterisk, my twin brother Andy has 12 asterisk boxes  
deployed across his enterprise (Brown Publishing ... they recently  
purchased Des Moines Business Record) and will be in town the week of  
Christmas.  We might be able to convince him to talk about trunking  
multiple sites together over VPNs and things :)

-Tom


On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> Yeah you win.  Could you present?  Would you consider sharing your  
> dial
> plan?
>
> -Nate
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Pohl [mailto:tom at tcpconsulting.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:05 AM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Asterisk Training
>>
>> I'd bet that between a few of us, there's enough experience to share.
>>
>> I was just enumerating the things that we use asterisk for
>> and I'd bet it might be interesting for some to know how we did them:
>>
>> 75 extensions
>> 35 call queues
>> 12 conferences
>> 46 phone lines (2 PRIs)
>> overhead paging
>> door access phone WITH door unlock
>> Trunking between two internal PBXes (corp and call center)
>> Time Conditions agents with and without zip tones inbound
>> faxing to pdf outbound faxing using hylafax and windows print
>> driver ring groups follow me
>>
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:39 AM, Theron Conrey wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be interested from ground up work.  I'd like to see and or have
>>> demonstrated home use scenarios and also SMB setups.  I've got a
>>> running server, however, I'd like to learn and/or have some
>>> instruction on, other setups, configurations, and dial plan
>> ideas that
>>> I could use.  I'm sure that my systems isn't setup ideally for what
>>> I'd like to use it for, and all the help I could get would be
>>> fantastic.
>>>
>>> -Theron
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org]
>>> On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 10:22 AM
>>> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
>>> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Asterisk Training
>>>
>>>
>>> What kind of Asterisk training are people interested in?  I'm
>>> mostly interested in how to do dial-plan that can match commercial
>>> phone system dial plans.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't mind helping to subsidize the training (in
>> cooperation with
>>> others) if we brought in "professionals" so that everyone could
>>> participate.
>>>
>>> It almost seems like there is enough interest for a separate VoIP
>>> user group....  Just kidding, I'd rather keep sharing all the
>>> knowledge here.
>>>
>>> -Nate
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Theron Conrey [mailto:theron.conrey at dice.com]
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:25 AM
>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Asterisk Training
>>>>
>>>> If enough people were interested, I'd like to get some formal
>>>> training
>>>> of this type, and we could approach the instructing agency.
>>>> -Theron
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>>>> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:06 AM
>>>> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
>>>> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Asterisk Training
>>>>
>>>> There was a company offering training and asterisk boot
>> camp down in
>>>> K.C..
>>>>
>>>> -Nate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nathan Smith  Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.   515-288-3667
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Jonathan C. Bailey [mailto:jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us]
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:18 AM
>>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>>> Subject: [Cialug] Asterisk Training
>>>>>
>>>>> The shameless self promotion from earlier reminded me of
>>>> something...
>>>>> Is anyone out there running any Asterisk administration
>> training in
>>>>> central Iowa? It seems that most of the Digium stuff was in
>>>> Miami and
>>>>> Atlanta (not a bad location for a vacation/training), but I
>>>> don't know
>>>>> of any other training options..
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jon
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