On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Gavin Henry wrote:
2009/3/17 Gordon Henderson <[email protected]>:
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Gavin Henry wrote:
When budgets tight - I've deployed a lot of Grandstream phones - might give
you a bit more breathing space if you use (eg) GXP280's for the client
phones and a GXP2000 + button box for the receptionist.
Yeah, don't really like them though. I could go down to a 51i for £67 ex VAT.
Grandstreams aren't to everyones liking, this is true...
You can save money by building your own hardware too. Atom mobo, 1GB of RAM
and an OpenVox card running oslec is still overkill for this. I mostly use
1GHz VIA boards for these sort of projects with up to 60 extensions.
What would that come in at? A Dell T100 is £300 ex VAT for 160GB, 1GB RAM and
a Dual Core Intel® Pentium® E2220; 2.4GHz with 3yrs nxt bday.
Under £200 from someone like http://linitx.com/ I don't put disk drives in
my boxes though - they boot out of flash. I guess with the Dell, you have
on-site or next day replacement if you take that deal though.
A 4 port FXO card is £126.95 ex vat.
(From voipon by the looks of that price ;-)
Billings a PITA and other than what I've written myself, have never found
anything that works the way I'm happy with... Good luck!
Thanks.
I've been approcached by a client who wants a sort of hotel billing system
though - tailored to their needs - it's for a retirement home sort of
thing. I suggested they just did a fixed-price deal with the inmates, but
that didn't go down well. They want to account for everything to the
last penny )-:
I think I've covered everything. There will be many more business
centres to come as this first project will be the blueprint one. The
end goal is to also move this to a data centre and not have it on site
with the pstn fallback options, but use redundant links to our DC.
Like a mini-ITSP for our area. I haven't figured the receptionist part
for that bit yet though ;-)
Personally I'd stick the box on-site and have a central peering server or 2
in the DC - well that's how I do it ;-) You'll struggle to get properly
redundant links in that budget range too - one JCB can ruin everyones day!
Yeah, as I planned, but not for this project.
Good luck!
Gordon
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