You heard your economics professor always talking about "Acme Widgets Corporation" so you're going to get our help and then sell them a new phone system.
Are you comparing legacy against turnkey asterisk-based systems? That means setup, repair and support can be included by the vendor. Unless the company has an engineering department, just get proposals and pick one. Byron Pile wrote: > I thought the biz list was most appropriate for this. Hope I'm not wrong! > > I'm trying to write a term paper on adopting an open source solution > over a commercial solution and comparing the cost. Specifically if a > legacy system is in use already, when will the initial investment of > hardware for an asterisk based system pay off against the licensing > fees of a proprietary system. After reading a good chunk of the free > Asterisk book "Asterisk:The Future of Telephony" I think that Asterisk > is an excellent topic for the paper. > > I'm new to telephony stuff so bear with me if my questions are a bit > dumb, I've tried to do quite a bit of research and reading before > posting to the mail lists. So my idea was to use the fake company > "whatever" and they have 15 telephones and are currently using a > Norstar ICS with 4 incoming lines and 15 internal lines and I would > like to switch this over to an asterisk based system. > > The reason for choosing the Norstar as this is a turnkey solution > provided by a large local telecom so I will be able to get some > pricing information for them fairly easily and I think it does what a > 15 telephone small office might need...I'm open to a better suggestion > if the Norstar is a poor choice. > > My quick questions are...is it possible that the handsets being used > with a Norstar could be converted and used with the Asterisk system? > (a bit of asset recovery) > > A system consisting of a suitable linux server running Asterisk and a > Digium TDM2441B PCI Card 16FXS / 4FXO would be a suitable replacement > and could deliver the same performance/functions as the Norstar system? > > I'm going to try and be as thorough as possible in assessing the costs > in switching to this system. The most obvious being some new hardware, > but also, downtime, training, support costs, contract penalties (if > there are any) etc....But this is a term paper and a highly > hypothetical situation. And I know my questions are a bit general, but > the paper will probably be kept quite general. I hope I can learn more > about this cool app! _______________________________________________ --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
