At 03:39 AM 1/8/2003, Michael Graff wrote:
I got SER up and running with a whopping total of three "domains" being served on the same server. It was mostly painless, if missing some features I'd like to have seen (more on that in later messages.)
We will appreciate your feedback -- that's one of the quickest ways for us to learn about things deserving improvement.
What open source products are people using for voice mail,
I'm not aware of one I could recommend, a reason why we started developing our own. I hope a beta version will be out by end of February (may be to optimistic forecast, though). But it may be just my ignorance -- the asterisk project may perhaps work.
voice menu prompts (press 1 for sales, press 2 for the executative restroom) \
no idea -- perhaps asterisk too?
and for conference calls (which include PSTN calls as well as IP phones)?
Columbia university used to develop a conferencing system, but I'm not sure what its status is. I personally use mitel hardphones for 3-party conferencing -- the phone has the mixing capability built in it.
The PSTN interworking is orthogonal to whether you run conference or normal calls -- in either case, you need a PSTN gateway. We are using commercial hardware devices. I'm ignorant about available open-source solutions except Vocal's residential gateway. (I never got the RG running but that was my PBX's fault -- it used some undocumented tone characteristics which the RG was not able to detect.)
-Jiri