Al, I managed a CCM/Unity setup for more than 5 years and saying that Asterisk is less reliable is in my experience a stretch. I will agree that Cisco makes excellent gateways, routers and switches and their pstn gateways are top notch but I was never a fan of CCM and especially Unity. We were plagued with failures on the Unity server - mostly because of the use of Microsoft Exchange.
During this same time, I ran Asterisk as a conference bridge, voicemail server and fax to email server and never had the issues I had with CCM, and did much more for much less in terms of $ as well. For the most part, CCM did what it was tasked for, but I think that Asterisk has reached a point where it can compete at the reliability level and support can for Asterisk via the open source community and commercial vendors is acceptable for my needs which is why I am choosing to switch rather than continue on the upgrade cycle with CCM. I think Asterisk is the future for the IP-PBX realm, both homegrown and commercial, and CCM is a dead end. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Al Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quote "I need to replace a cisco call manager with an asterisk box." > WHY ? > You want your TELCO to be LESS Reliable with LESS SUPPORT ???? > > Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy wrote: >> Search someone in local area, remote configuration of server is >> possible but configuring the phones is more difficult, you need >> someone to load firmwares, ect >> >> 2008/7/24 Chad Whitten <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: >> >> I need to replace a cisco call manager with an asterisk box. Phones >> are cisco 7940 and 7910. I know the 40's can use SIP but the 7910's >> have to use the skinny/sccp driver. Its been quite awhile since I did >> anything with asterisk, so I am looking for some assistance with the >> configuration and am willing to pay. Its a basic setup, 30+ phones, >> incoming lines via PRI, 1 dial plan for incoming and outgoing - >> nothing fancy there, voicemail for each phone and DID number for each >> phone. >> >> -- >> Chad Whitten >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona >> Register Now: http://www.astricon.net >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Chad Whitten Metro Network Solutions (601) 366-6630 Phone (601) 366-6066 Fax (601) 842-6804 Cellular [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users