[TriLUG] telephone system advice

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 10:47 AM, James Jones via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Some of you most likely have experience with small office telephone systems
> and hopefully can steer me in the right direction.
>
> Our church has gone 15 years without a true office. We have purchased a
> home next to our church which will become our office complex. I need to
> install some sort of telephone system with 2 trunk lines and at least 5
> telephone locations.
>
> Every time I google for information, all I seem to get is sales locations
> that want a ton of information and most appear to be sites that provide
> this information to others that would be calling me.
>
> I prefer to read about systems, then call a possible provider with
> questions.
>
> Are there any good locations for just reviewing specs of equipment,
> technical reviews of such equipment?
>
> Hopefully, there has to be at least one trilugger is involved in telephone
> service who can steer me in the right direction on this.
>
      Have you considered something asterisk-based like freepbx and so
on?  Can then grab a few voip phones and softphone apps for cells and
computers, and off you go. For fax, I used a
http://wiki.sangoma.com/A101-Single-Voice-and-Data-Card before

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