Hey guys! Long time no see! I'm back now, after a lot of things going on.

So, here I am, and my current project is to get an Asterisk PBX behind my current in-house Norstar.

I have a vision of being able to use the Asterisk as voicemail, wake-up calls, the 'fiesta' calling feature (your extension is xxx), and all of those. However, I am not wanting to put any phones on the asterisk, just dial an extension number to get the asterisk (if the asterisk is an extension) or the out-side line access code.

My question for the people that have done this already is: There are two cards for the Asterisk, the FXS and FXO. If I want the asterisk to be able to be called into for voicemail and etc and then be able to call out for wake-up calls, how do I need to setup the cards and which cards would work best?

I have ATA2's to use to hook up the Asterisk to the extension if it will work that way or through the Norstar TRUNK port. (All ports are loopstart)

I'd be interested to know what you lot think about this and and ideas with it.

Thanks,

topher

Kristopher