On 2003-06-27 at 14:24, Chip Mefford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is anyone actually using * as a primary phone system in > a small/medium sized business with more than a dozen > stations and a real receptionist who handles calls?
As impressed as I am with asterisk, and as happy as we are with it as the basis for our IVR/conferencing application, I don't think it is ready to replace a real PBX for general office use. And it doesn't have to because they can work together. There are a lot of very reasonably priced systems on the used market. For example, we use an Eon Millennium (n�e ITT 3100) that we picked up fully loaded for a few thousand dollars, and for VoIP/IVR/ACD/VM we connect to an asterisk server through its PRI interface. But the PBX itself provides the standard features like nice feature phones (available refurbished for one-third the price of a Cisco 7960), busy lamp / DSS consoles, and ARS tables, that are nicer than anything you could cobble together easily with asterisk at this point. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
