I was just talking to a friend about getting rid of the traditional pbx in his small office of about 10 people. Is something like Callcentric's business offering a good fit for that?
Or, is it better to run your own Asterisk server? On Fri, Feb 7, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Chris Manly wrote: > I'll also put in a 2nd for Callcentric. I've been using it for about > five > years now, and I've been happy. You can have it forward/simul-ring > external phones. I have it do that to the home SIP phone and both my cell > phone and my wife's cell phone anytime the school district calls us (in > case it's the nurse telling us we have a kid en route to the ER.) > Whoever > picks up and presses '1' first gets the call. > > In fact, I trust them enough that I just cut my mother-in-law over from a > traditional landline to their service. (Although I'm not sure if that's > an endorsement of the service or a reason to question my sanity...) > > -- > Christopher Manly > Coordinator, Library Systems > Cornell University Library Information Technologies > c...@cornell.edu > 607-255-3344 > > > > > > On 2/7/14, 9:09 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" <lop...@nedharvey.com> > wrote: > > >> From: g...@kurai.org [mailto:g...@kurai.org] > >> > >> I've been experimenting with asterisk and SIP trunks from callcentric. > >>?You can > >> also get reduced feature asterisk installs for free from pbxes.com, > >>also have > >> a paid tier. > > > >I use and love callcentric. But I'm only using basic SIP clients with > >them - I don't think they can support SMS/MMS, I don't think they have > >any way to "intercept" outbound calls from the cell phone (unless you're > >using SIP over data) and I don't think they have the ability to forward > >and simulring inbound calls to multiple unrelated numbers - Even less, an > >API or something to programatically change the inbound forwarding numbers. > > > >But you bring up a good point. I will ask them. Maybe they have > >services that I'm just not aware of. > >_______________________________________________ > >Discuss mailing list > >Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Philip J. Hollenback www.hollenback.net @philiph _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
