On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 18:00 -0400, Peter MacFarlane wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Cisco seems to fare a little better than I > expected. Doesn't their SIP support require extra licensing fees per > line or have they dropped that now? I understood it was their > proprietary protocol they were pushing. Therefore, you would have to > use their phones.
As far as I know the answer to this is probably yes but I'm not in sales so I don't have all the details on licensing. As I mentioned, price is where Asterisk beats Cisco every time. > In terms of remote access, I was thinking of the ability to resell > extensions or server-to-server for client use. Barring all of the > CRTC issues, would this be cost effective at all? Reselling extensions as in using it as a platform for hosted VOIP would not work well because it isn't designed to run separate companies on the same platform. Users can "see" each other etc. As far as server-to-server for client use; yes, call manager is explicitly designed for this. For example, if you have a large corporation with offices all over the world, call manger will "intelligently" route calls over your WAN not only when calling branch-to-branch but for calls to that area as well to avoid long distance. So if you have a Toronto office and a Calgary office and someone in Toronto dials a number in Calgary, the call will route over the WAN and use the Calgary machine as a gateway. -- John Lange www.johnlange.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
