Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

[Thomas Charron]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you had an "ordinary" analog telephone with "speed dial"
>> buttons capable of sending DTMF during a call, Asterisk could
>> detect and act on them without requiring any hookflashing.
>  Which would suck ass for any number of reasons.  Response would be
> slow, users would hear the touch tones, it would risk collisions with
> DTMF sequences dialed for other things.
>
>  This is why so many VOIP deployments end up with unhappy users.  The
> engineers are concerned first with finding neat ways to make things
> happen, without really considering the fact that how *well* things
> work matters hugely.

  Ben, out of curiosity, what phones do you have on the desks now?
Meridian sets?

  Sorry for the late reply to the thread, been so busy it isn't funny at work.

  If your just looking to add VoIP, why not just trunk to the existing
system with an Asterisk box using a T1 crossover?

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-- Thomas