Telecom Technical VOIP in a small office environment

> Folks,
>
> I am a newbie when it comes to VOIP. I wanted to use VOIP in our small
> office environment. Existing setup involves three analog lines coming to
> my
> office. They go into a PBX, and from there on, we have our individual
> phones connected. Of course the three lines are in a hunt group, so an
> outside caller calls the same number.
>
> I called Vonage having the same type of setup. Vonage told me VOIP does
> not
> work like that. I will have to get an IP phone for each individual in the
> office. They do have some kind of hunt group, but not similar to normal
> hunt group.

>I called Vonage having the same type of setup. Vonage told me VOIP does not
>work like that. I will have to get an IP phone for each individual in the
>office. They do have some kind of hunt group, but not similar to normal
>hunt group.

>I have the following questions to you experts:

>2. If the above construct is true then I am sure someone would have thought
>of SOHO environment, where a 3 line VOIP PBX would basically have three
>identities for Vonage to route the calls.

>

>>I called Vonage having the same type of setup. Vonage told me VOIP does
>>not
>>work like that. I will have to get an IP phone for each individual in the
>>office. They do have some kind of hunt group, but not similar to normal
>>hunt group.

>
> I've confirmed that I can receive multiple simultaneous incoming calls
> with
> BroadVoice. (I did very little testing with it but I'm likely to try it
> again.)
>
> If you're going to try to do anything interesting, I recommend sticking
> with a more open service (like BroadVoice or VoicePulse).
>

>>I have the following questions to you experts:

>
> I'm no expert but if you run a simple Asterisk box at the office with all
> of your phones connected to it, you should be able to have it register
> with a service like BroadVoice so that incoming calls ring to the phones
> as you like (all at once or in rotation).
>

>>2. If the above construct is true then I am sure someone would have
>>thought
>>of SOHO environment, where a 3 line VOIP PBX would basically have three
>>identities for Vonage to route the calls.

>
> Unless your DID (incoming PSTN) provider limits it, there's no need to
> think in terms of "3 lines".
>
> --kyler

> Folks,
>
> I am a newbie when it comes to VOIP. I wanted to use VOIP in our small
> office environment. Existing setup involves three analog lines coming to

> office. They go into a PBX, and from there on, we have our individual
> phones connected. Of course the three lines are in a hunt group, so an
> outside caller calls the same number.
>
> I called Vonage having the same type of setup. Vonage told me VOIP does

> work like that. I will have to get an IP phone for each individual in the
> office. They do have some kind of hunt group, but not similar to normal
> hunt group.
>
> I have the following questions to you experts:
>
> 1. Can someone please draw anaology of VOIP with my existing setup. Okay,

> understand that there is something in the phone, which over a braodband
> connection identifies itself to the phone provider (Let us take Vonage in
> our example).
>
> 2. If the above construct is true then I am sure someone would have

> of SOHO environment, where a 3 line VOIP PBX would basically have three
> identities for Vonage to route the calls.
>
> I would greatly appreciate if someone would please comment on my

>
> Thanks.
>
> Ash
>
>