Questions tagged [telephone]
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Turn old rack server into a telephone server
I have an old server lying around and I am thinking of using it as an internal telephone server. Its main use would be to set up a 1 to 1 telephone system that could be used internally to connect to different users in different offices.
I have…

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Digital phone system with dual star topology (over Cat5e)
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2 office spaces within the same building (approx 50m apart), 8 workstations in office 1 and 6 workstations in office 2. Every workstation will have 2 network connections (1 for data, 1 for a phone).
The data network I am happy with - 1…

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How to connect to an avaya ACD00-0049JP
In the place were I work they have an outdated AVAYA device with model ACD00-0049JP. We´ve been tasked with changing certain configurations. The people who were in charge of these devices left years ago.
They did not leave any documentation or…

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Setup automated calling during an ETL failure
Just started working on a large data warehouse project that runs some large ETLs every night. In the event of an error I receive an email, but I was hoping to somehow create something that will automatically call me, so I don't have to wake up and…

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ShoreTel 230 phone calls from website
Our company uses these fancy ShoreTel 230 phones. We make many phone calls from our custom built web based contact management system. It would be nice if our employees could click on a phone number from a webpage and have it automatically start…

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Intra-office PBX using analog phone lines
My office is planning to have an intra-office software-based intercom system. As USB phones are costly, is it possible to do them with analog phones (connecting to RJ-11) instead? The phones won't have any connection to the PSTN network. Also, what…

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NGN detection with Asterisk PBX
Is it possible to detect if a NGN (Non Geographic Number, e.g. 0844, 0845, 0870 etc) number has been used to connect to an Asterisk PBX?
Thanks in advance.
Kyle

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Meridian M7208 system interrupts phone call with voice mail on non-meridian phone
I just became the system administrator for a church with four Meridian M7208 telephones and a Vtech phone. The user of the Vtech phone reported that when making a phone call, she receives a voice message which begins with the words "General…
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How to automatically test the audio quality of a telephone line that randomly goes bad?
I am a computer scientist and I'm working as sysadmin of a small firm where I've been managing also the telephone system that my predecessor put in place.
Albeit I don't really have the skill set for doing this, until now it was enough.
Since the…

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Converting phone wall mount to ethernet mount
I currently have a telephone wall mount. 1 near the router, 2 more in another 2 rooms.
When I remove the wall mount, I can see 4 wires from the cable.
Red, Blue, White and Grey.
My question is, can this cable be converted to ethernet so that I can…