I think one of the greatest things about * is that not only do you get the most flexible PBX I've ever worked with, but it also can act as a IP gateway for much less than traditional hardware IP gateways (a. la. Cisco/Mediatrix/etc...). You can use it to extend an existing PBX and save thousands per month by terminating your PSTN calls via IP...
-Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Kawakami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:24 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Sorry, Newbie here > > ----- 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 _______________________________________________ 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
