I will be installing Asterisk in the next few weeks. We will have 4 inbound phone lines (FXO). Do we need voip telephones that has 4 lines, or will asterisk proccess the lines. (Just need a regular cheap 1 line voip phone).
It will do whatever it is configured to do, whatever you design your dialplan to achieve it can do.
It is a steep learning curve though!!!
Mike.
Asterisk processes the lines. You can use a one line phone.
To do this assign all 4 channels to the same zap group (zapata.conf). Also put them in the same context.
When you make an outgoing call do it via something like
exten => _NXXXXXX,1,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN}) which for 7 digit numbers will choose a free zap channel from goup 1 and dial it…
also by putting them in the same context all incoming calls will be handled the same.
What are you hoping to accomplish? Do you want to be able to talk on any of the four FXO lines with any of the single line phones? Or, do you want to marry each phone to just one line.
The former is a bit more difficult than the latter. Post a bit more about what you’d like to do and we can be more specific about how to do it.