If you are that price conscious then a good quality (ie. Asterisk on good hardware) phone system is not for you IMHO. You are better off with a Bizfone or Talkswitch analog system. Panasonic makes a real cheap digital key system.
Going cheap on Asterisk is just not a good thing IMHO! Cheap SIP phones are no where near as good as cheap analog phones for the most basic and important functionality of talking and listening. I certainly will not get myself caught in some project that want's dirt cheap and expects good quality sound and basic functions that consistently work. That is nothing but a recipe for failure. Just my opinion. > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Perez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:46 PM > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] RE: Bottom end of the market for > an Asterisk PBX ? > > 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 > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Erick Perez > Panama Sistemas > Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de > Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ --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
