[Freeswitch-users] Basic information and help needed

[Brian West]

On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Abilash Praveen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to freeswitch and VoIP on the whole. I'm trying to deploy  
> Freeswitch for a LAN. My current senerio is this:
>
> I have a CentOS linux server set up and have about 5 PCs on the LAN.  
> The Linux box is the gateway to the PCs. I want to set up Freeswitch  
> and have phones on all the computers. I want to use Freeswitch as a  
> softPBAX to route calls to all the five persons and also to be able  
> to call the five persons internally.
>
> Eg, if someone calls our office number, it should be picked up by  
> person 1. He will then forward the calls to any of the 5 persons in  
> the LAN.
>
> Where do I start? I have moderate knowledge in Linux and PHP so  
> should be able to work with Freeswitch. But my question is how can i  
> input the telephone line (from my provider) into the server? Is it  
> also possible to use ordinary phones  across LAN instead of SIP  
> phones (I assume it is software phones that will use the server's IP  
> to get hooked in).

http://wiki.freeswitch.org along with #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net

/b



>
> I'm sorry if my questions sound too foolish, but since I'm totally  
> new to VoIP I'm having problems to kick start.
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Kind regards,
> Abilash Praveen
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