David : will contact you offline as you requested. Just a general comment from 
your project description. You may do well to consider the amount of call center 
features and statistics you will require. Without knowing all I suspect that 
you will find the project will work best if the home based agents have the 
option to click on desktop applications.

Steve
www.bicomsystems.com
steve 'at' bicomsystems dot com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Anderson 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 6:45 PM
  Subject: [asterisk-users] SER vs Asterisk?


  Hi Marco - since you've asked. :)

  We're looking to have 3 to 4 T1 lines dropped into our datacenter, which will 
contain one of the Asterisk boxes.  From the data center, AT&T is going to be 
running a fiberoptic connection directly to our callcenter, which will employ 
about 75-100 people.  We'll have a backup T1 that will be setup with the Master 
Asterisk box at the callcenter.  We have a few hundred home based independent 
contractors scattered across the country - we want them all to have at least a 
soft phone and an extension, but we can't require it. 

  Call routing will be as such:
  All calls from our 800#'s will be sent first to the data center, then over 
the fiber line to our call center.  Call center agent picks up the call, does a 
customer search and asks a few qualifying questions.  They submit the call in a 
web based app that we have, which finds the best available agent (using jabber 
presence).  Once the call is submitted, home based agents will see the call on 
their screen, and then click to claim.  Back at the call center, the callcenter 
rep's page is updated (ajax) with which agent it is.  From this point, phase 
one is just to transfer the call back out through the fiber connection, to the 
data center, then outbound on the t1 line to ring the analog phone of the 
agent. 

  We're looking for some independent help setting this up.  Please email me at 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have experience with this type of setup.  Phase 1 will 
be "get it working" - Phase 2 is going to be a lot of customization with our 
current web based system, which uses ColdFusion and SQL 2K. 

  Thanks,
   David



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    Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:49:28 +0000
    From: "Marco Mouta" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] SER vs Asterisk?
    To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
           < [email protected]>
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    Only with Asterisk you can handle it, but of course it depends on  your
    requirements on scalability and redundancy needed.

    How many agents? How many diferent locations? SIP trunk to your telco or
    PSTN ? Remote Agents at home? 

    Post more details on your requirements and I believe there are so many
    experienced users in this list all around the world that you will have good
    tips here.





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