People always talk about cheap products, but they do not consider an important factor. There are countries (like mine) that will *not* pay USD 150.00 for a phone in a company with less than 20 or 30 users.
An Example: I work for a bank that has 185 analog extensions and about 20 digital connected to an old, very old, norstar PBX. Analog extensions like the one I use are cheap Panasonic phone (handset+base, and buttons 0-9, *,#) that costs 16 dollars per unit in quantities below 10 units. When I tried to talk about an asterisk setup in my office, they looked and said "how much will it costs?". When I talked about snom 300 phones at 185 per unit they looked at me and ask me if i could do it with cheap panasonic phones. An AudioCodes MP124 (24fxs, SIP, g729,g711) is about 1500 (about $62 per port), so total analog implementation was about $80 per port (panasonic+audiocodes). Sure, that implementation wont beat a snom 300, but sure gets the work done. That's why some of us still use cheapo equipment like grandstream or the like, because some of us can't affort a 150-300 phone. Unless you're the big-chief and the company pays you an executive phone. BTW snom 300 can pass as executive phones down here. cheers, On 7/6/06, shadowym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While * may not be low end, * on a Dell Dimension or (insert your favorite budget PC here) with X100P cards or cheap ATA's or cheap ? Using Grandstream phones or (insert your favorite budget SIP phone here) certainly is low end. There are MANY people on this list doing exactly that! That is what is perpetuating the image of low quality, not the software itself. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:23 AM > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] RE: Bottom end of the market for > an Asterisk PBX ? > > Snip. > > > * is not low-end, in fact for our purposes, it is likely the > highest-end > > product that we found. People have to stop confusing > open-source with > > low quality. Do you consider Firefox a low-end browser? > > > > W > > Or Linux a low-end OS?, Open-Source is a toolkit, once in a > while you are able to find a well-made multi-function tool, > but if you realize that while you may not have the exact tool > you need, you have all the raw materials and full run and > access to the machine shop. > > On a downside your machine shop tends to reconfigure itself > every once in a while, as others come in and add/change the > tools!! But unlike closed-source options at least you can see > the changes! > > > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
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