Tim, What were your thoughts on the PBXtra product?
Derrick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Simms Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:56 AM To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Full Turn-Key System Update & Request Hey all -- Thanks to everyone who has responded to me re: our solution. I've been on email, phone, and IM with many of you, and I appreciate the time you all have put in. Here's where we're at: 1. We've garnered from you all that Hosted IP PBX is not the way to go, because of reliability concerns, etc. Several of you are working on this, but don't have a commercial production system in place yet. Because of that, we may just go ahead and pull the IP PBX in house. 2. There were concerns over the VoIP and IP PBX technology being used. Many suggested we stay away from IAX, but go with SIP, since SIP is growing as the standard. Also SIP has greater community support than IAX. Some even suggested that because Asterisk is based on IAX, we should look at other IP PBX vendors instead of Asterisk. Main recommendation was PingTel. 3. The two phones that were widely recommended for our mid-range budget were the Polycom IP 500 (though changing to the 501 soon, with more mem) and the Sipura phones. 4. We want to find a VoIP provider that is reliable, answers their phones for support, is less expensive than traditional PSTN calling, etc... but as Preston pointed out a while back, that list might be empty. Now with reliability, I understand it might be possible to contract with multiple carriers, so that if one goes down, the other takes over... I can't visualize how that works, but interested in learning more from someone who might be doing this. FYI, we're probably doing close to 8000 - 10000 minutes per month. Area code doesn't matter much; incoming will be coming in on toll-free & just about all outbound calls will be outside of local area. Any recommendations? 5. Suppliers / Contractors will need to reside in the continental US. But I find the recommendations and advice from those outside the US to be extremely valuable, so I welcome any input you might have for your preferred vendors, equipment, and technologies! Still haven't figured it all out, so we don't have equipment speced out or the people who will configure it, but we'll make sure it's paid at a rate > $10/hr... ;) Thanks again for all your help! There's no way I'd be able to make an informed decision without this forum (unless I had way more time than I have, to devote to it)! Cheers, -Tim _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
