Now you are talking :). Yes, the $25,000 dollar question is why the * box did not have a T1 card in the first place, if in fact the folks are thinking to expand into greater work force.
Cheers! ----- Original Message ----- From: Peng Li To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 6:24 PM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Cisco 1700 and Most expensive Asterisk Platform. it's an interesting one. why dont' they just use a T1 in the * box? tks peng On 4/5/07, Mark Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps this was 'for future capacity' and /or the needs changed mid-way through the install... or this person is some wicked kind of sales type... it would have been interesting to hear the pitch to the client. On Thu April 5 2007 17:02:04 Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast wrote: > Nope. Not at all... T1, CSU/DSU, Cisco1700, Linksys, Refurb P3 w/512 > MBRam, 8x SIP phones. > > Cheers! > Reza. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Peng Li > To: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast > Cc: TAUG > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:48 PM > Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Cisco 1700 and Most expensive Asterisk > Platform. > > > HI Reza, > > Do you mean that Cisco 1700 runs an Asterisk with a P3 chip inside as a > submodule? > > tks > peng > > > On 4/5/07, Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone advise me why one would want to use a Cisco 1700 connected > to a T1 -- in a fairly new implementation and billed the client $1500 for > the 1700? And if you were the conslutant, why would you want to connect > a $50 Linksys router to the 1700 in the first place? > > I've been called in as an expert witness to give my unbiased analysis, > and I have my theories. However I also want to accompany my opinion with > other Asterisk & Cisco veterans here before I'm called to testify as an > independent/neutral party. > > Adds to the interesting twist I've seen one of the MOST EXPENSIVE > asterisk machines running on a P3 machine (never mind the configurations) > -- which has 2, 4 port Digium Cards -- sold for $25,000+ fairly recently. > Heck if I sold a P3 for that much, I'd make sure the client got customer > service ABOVE AND BEYOND! > > Cheers! > Reza. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
