VOIP phones connecting to establish system?
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 by kameron_213 | Discussion: Internet
I'm really new to this arena so bear with me.
I'm the IT guy at a site. We have a ROLM MOD-10 9751010 phone system in place that is managed off site. We recently established a short, point to point, wireless site to a warehouse about 200 yards away. It works great and good connectivity on wireless G with 54mb. I'm not running heavy traffic to it. 4 computers just connected to the email system. I'm looking to add 3 phones to this site and tie them in to our system so they can get voicemail and simply dial the 4 digit extension to the contact on this side. Is it possible to get hardware to plug into the phone system, (or jacks or into the pad) to convert it to IP to send it across the network, then convert it back to digital to one of our phones on the remote site?
What do I look for? I've done some searching but I think I'm looking for the wrong things.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:05 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:05 PM
Maybe look for a software solution,
softphone (software phone) where you can dial from the user's pc to the main office.
Have you tried skype, I haven't myself but apparently it's very popular and free what I've heard - you would just need mic's & speakers for the pc's at your whse location, they already have a decent network connection as per your description. Install the client software on each of those whse pc's, they should be able to dial local numbers with minimal cost. - Just an idea anyways.
I personally wouldn't invest alot of dollars in hardware for a location that will only minimal type usage out of it. Let us know how it works out.
softphone (software phone) where you can dial from the user's pc to the main office.
Have you tried skype, I haven't myself but apparently it's very popular and free what I've heard - you would just need mic's & speakers for the pc's at your whse location, they already have a decent network connection as per your description. Install the client software on each of those whse pc's, they should be able to dial local numbers with minimal cost. - Just an idea anyways.
I personally wouldn't invest alot of dollars in hardware for a location that will only minimal type usage out of it. Let us know how it works out.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:02 AM