Linksys = Cheapest/smallest/generally available firewall on the market. Cisco = Maybe he had extra stock? Or thought maybe there would be data.
Same with Asterisk = Maybe had stock of those cards. Or wanted to make it more portable to expand... Start with 4 lines, go up to 8? Unfortunately, each solution has it's own "installer bias". Like everything technology... From: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April-05-07 5:02 PM To: TAUG Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Cisco 1700 and Most expensive Asterisk Platform. Nope. Not at all... T1, CSU/DSU, Cisco1700, Linksys, Refurb P3 w/512 MBRam, 8x SIP phones. Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: Peng Li <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: TAUG <mailto:[email protected]> 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.
