Thanks all for the replies. I started working for a CLEC a few months ago and
we've chosen to implement Asterisk. I'm not sure if the fact that my boss is an
open source advocate is a good thing or not... ie yes it's great to work with
Asterisk and see all the features coming together (especially with Polycom
phones). On the other hand I wonder how useful this experience will really be.
I see a lot of VOIP jobs requiring Cisco experience. I worked with VOIP back in
1998, for a global VOIP wholesaler called OzEmail Interline in Australia before
there where any standards... before SIP even. Until a few months ago I was
working with SAN's and storage. Anywho...
Doug.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert La Ferla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sat 1/7/2006 8:56 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Cc:
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Jobs
Douglas Garstang wrote:
> I'm curious why the number of jobs out there requiring Asterisk seems
to be pretty low. After looking around dice, monster, careerbuilder etc, I was
surprised to find no more than 3-4 employment opportunities with Asterisk
throughout the US.
>
> Is it really that low? There seems to be a job of opportunities for
Cisco and other vendors solutions (duh... GUI's are good... duh). I wonder if
demand will increase, or am I just looking in the wrong places?
>
I think that the Asterisk customer profile can shed some light on this.
If you are a big company, you'll buy into an expensive system because
you can afford it and rely on it. If you are a small company, you will
look to Asterisk as an inexpensive way to set up your telephone system.
You will also likely have staff that is willing to work with it and not
enough money or need to hire external consultants exclusively for
Asterisk. You may have a telecom or networking consultant that will put
together the network and set up the system but Asterisk is a small piece
of it. I'd say Asterisk is more of a "plus" in a job description but
not a "requirement".
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