That' great. I appreciate all of the input. I forgot about hosting
separate companies.
Peter M.
John Lange wrote:
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.
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