# System for Phone Tree/Menu

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205>\
**Category:** Asterisk General\
**Created:** [December 18, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205 "2007-12-18T11:35:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Robinett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/peter_robinett/32/978_2.png) [@Peter\_Robinett](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Peter_Robinett)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 11:35am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205/1 "2007-12-18T11:35:33Z")

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Sorry if this has been answered already but I’ve poked around on the various websites and haven’t been able to find anything…

I’m looking into building a system that has several levels of menus with recorded audio and options (think categories, subcategories and specific entries) that a user can traverse (ie hear) by calling into a normal phone number. Not knowing much about telephony, I thought of Asterisk. Is Asterisk the best solution to do this? I wonder if Asterisk would actually be overkill, as none of the other PBX features are needed. What do you advise?

Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![mbruni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mbruni](https://community.asterisk.org/u/mbruni)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205/2 "2007-12-18T12:07:26Z")

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Asterisk is a good solution for your needs, imho.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Robinett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/peter_robinett/32/978_2.png) [@Peter\_Robinett](https://community.asterisk.org/u/Peter_Robinett)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205/3 "2007-12-19T14:06:01Z")

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Thanks, Marco, for the advice. For a quick-and-dirty development box, will I need any hardware beyond a supported modem?

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**Author:** ![mbruni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@mbruni](https://community.asterisk.org/u/mbruni)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/system-for-phone-tree-menu/18205/4 "2007-12-20T08:29:43Z")

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You can go on without any hardware, you may just use just the sip channel, with it you can dial to/from pstn too through an itsp.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni