----- Original Message ----- > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Sorry, Newbie here > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I never heard of Asterisk before today, but from what i'm looking at on the website and hearing, it sounds pretty incredibly. If I understand correctly with a 1,500.00 Wildcard TE410p T1 card, a good BSD or Linux Server, and a couple IP phones or Netmeeting on a few workstations, and of course, Asterisk which is free; I call have a small call center. > > This can't be? I was looking at tens of thousands for a Cisco solution. Any comments or insight is welcome. >
after working the telecom industry for the past 10 years i can tell you to believe it. your statement is absolutely true dont kid yourself though, * has some gotchas especially in call center functionality, and * requires learning from scratch how open source software developers interpreted what hardware engineers have done for the past 30 years. if you have experience in implementing open source solutions and some telephony background you can build just about anything you want to do with a telephone and a computer with *. usually there is a trade off in cost (read capital expenditure) and installation and maint of these solutions. i would suggest to you contacting a consultant (check the listings on voip-info.org) and contact someone near you about your requirements. or do what we all did and download the software from CVS and dive in. welcome to the brave new world Jason Kawakami www.optellabs.com _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
