A2billing is a good fit for that then. Yeah, voipon. Thanks for the input Gordon. Maybe worth hooking up offline if we're doing similar stuff.
Gavin. On 17/03/2009, Gordon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device http://www.suretecsystems.com/services/openldap/ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
