WOW, thread hijacking :)
Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions, The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), www.enterux.com Quoting Craig Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > We're looking to buy a few of Appliance Units for a customer install and > just noticed that there's a new one from Xorcom > http://www.xorcom.com/products/xr1000. > > We've yet to touch either unit and we're wondering whether anyone is > able to comment on the relative merits of Digium's Appliance V.s > Xorcom's XR1000 in terms of price, concurrent calls, max SIP > registrations, heat, Voicemail limits, transcoding limits, tech support, > etc? > > As far as I know the Asterisk Appliance is USD$1250 or so and the end > customer is encouraged to purchase support - see > http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/subscriptions.php. > > The BIG problem here is that the support service isn't supplied by the > vendor but by the Digium Distro in your region (as far as I can > determine). This wouldn't normally be an issue for us, however the > Digium Distro in our region is actually in the same market selling > Asterisk solutions and consulting services. There is a real risk that > they will speak to and poach our customer after we do all the sales leg > work. > > Therefore the Xorcom could be a better choice - we could sell a similar > subscription based support service (thanks Digium for drafting that up) > using our 1st level and 2nd level support engineers with email support > from Xorcom. > > BTW - I'm only considering Xorcom as an alternative as I hear good > things about their products and I also hear that they were involved in > development of the Asterisk Zaptel drivers (so they should know their > stuff). I'm not looking for suggestions of alternative appliances. > > Thanks > > Craig Lawrence > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Capp > Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 4:16 AM > To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] 2nd Try: Looking for bids on FAX > implementation. > > Nate, > > We currently do something like this for La-Z-Boy Chair Company > using spandsp and txfax/rxfax. > > Jim > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:18:36AM -0600, bill dwyer wrote: >> Good Morning, >> We are looking for assistance in implementing a FAX system based on >> either Asterisk or a variation of a Open Source telecom system. We are > going >> to be using a T1 (PRI) split in half for 12 lines of traffic and the > other >> half for data. Using a Digium card, (not purchased yet) This is pretty >> straight forward, we have considered using IP Fax (t.38) but I > understand >> that it is not the most reliable. I would be interested in discussing > our >> options. Below is the basic idea of what we are looking for. >> Briefly the system requirments are as follows: >> >> Purpose: To develop a PC based Fax Switch that is capable of handling > up to >> 8 simultaneous faxes concurrently. The system should be able to > translate >> incoming faxes from outside Fax machines into and Email attachment. > Outgoing >> faxes should be faxed out from Email and translated into a fax that > can be >> sent to consumer fax machines. The system will be able to receive > account >> activation/termination information from the CRM, and interface with > our >> customer database. >> >> I would like to have a demo of this running by the 20th of next month > if at >> all possible. I will provide all of the hardware, T1 and colocation, I > just >> need an implementor. Thank you. >> >> Please contact me at nate (a) emericamedia.com >> >> Nate Sann >> >> C.O.O. - Emericamedia > >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. > http://www.astricon.net/ >> >> --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- >> >> asterisk-biz mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. > http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
