I can't answer all of your questions, as I am not a Linux guru, but I can answer a couple based off of experience:
>(2) What phones would be best to get? Polycoms are nice (IMO). I know others swear by SNOM. I haven't ever purchased any Cisco phones because it just doesn't seem like you get the same bang for your buck. I have quite a few office folk using the Polycom 501 and they like them very much; very solid, great spkrphone, MWI support--all in all I've been happy with them from an admin perspective. The 501's are about 200 bux (US). If you're on more of a budget, the Grandstream GXP-2000's are nice as well (about $100). The firmware can be a bit buggy and can lock up the phone every once in a while, though this hasn't been a big problem for me. The GXP-2000's support BLF, which is kinda nice. >(3) Any recommendation on a Dell server? I was thinking a PE1850 >because of the dual power supplies and hardware RAID in a 1U chassis. Dell hardware has been discussed before; you may want to search the archives, here's a link to a search for "dell 1850": http://groups.google.com/group/Asterisk-users/search?group=Asterisk-users&q= dell+1850&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group >(4) If I get outside sales agents working from home, what would be a >good phone for them to get to hook into our system as a local extension? You could just get the same phones for remote users. If you're thinking more of a 'budget' phone for the remote users, the GXP-2000 or Polycom 301 might be it. On the other hand, if they're sales people, they're probably on the phone a lot, so you may want to get them just as nice of a phone as others. -ross -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Starting from scratch I have been tasked with moving our office from our junky old Nortel Meridian system to Asterisk. I will be keeping the T-1 PRI Voice circuits for the immediate future. My current intent is to purchase a nice Dell server to run everything, with a Digium TE110P PRI card. I also intend to run some version of Centos as the operating system. I have a mix of Centos 3 and Centos 4 boxes here and would like to keep that consistent. There will be about 25 extensions to start and up to another 10 in the next year. More than that and we need more office space. I already have ethernet running to all of the locations where phones will be, but in most cases only 1 port, which is already being used by a PC, so I will likely need a phone with 2 ports so I can daisy-chain off of it. Customization will be likely as we are a technology-heavy company and would like to be able to link incoming phone numbers to orders and comments in the database for the sales and customer service reps eventually. We have a programming department (I am sysadmin) and will be able to write the code to do this wither on the phone or on the rep's screen (pushed based on static IPs). I would like to keep the phones under $300 apiece (well under if possible). Questions: (1) Any advantage of Centos 3 or 4? (2) What phones would be best to get? (3) Any recommendation on a Dell server? I was thinking a PE1850 because of the dual power supplies and hardware RAID in a 1U chassis. (4) If I get outside sales agents working from home, what would be a good phone for them to get to hook into our system as a local extension? Thanks a bunch! Warren _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
