On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:17, David Guest wrote:
> Thinus van Rensburg wrote:
> >Any suggestions on the PBX?
>
> Hi Thinus
>
> I have no knowledge or experience of PABXs except when I peer into the
> motherboard of our 9 year old Samsung system I can see a 286 processor.
> That is to say, when the PABX was first installed they were using 10
> year old technology. However, all our slots in the board were used up by
> our last extension 18 months ago and I am in the market for a new system.
>
> After sitting in the whirlpool (e.g.
> http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=438869) for a while
> there seems to me to be four broad alternatives:-
>
> 1. Stick with PSTN but run some outgoing lines through VoIP as per
> Tony's suggestion. This is least cost and least risk.
> 2. Get a standard PABX solution but query the dealers about what VoIP
> options their systems have. I gather these are fairly standard
> add-ons for the likes of Ericsson, Nortel, Alcatel, etc.
> 3. Go the whole hog with VoIP everywhere. You could do this yourself
> (which would be high risk and potentially high maintenance) or get
> a VoIP specialist to do it. (I'd query sensis.com.au for voip or
> pabx in your city for suppliers.) The VoIP guy I spoke with in
> Brisbane 18 months ago was high tech and high cost but the market
> has matured a fair bit in the last six months and prices should be
> more reasonable.
> 4. Forget completely about VoIP and screw the phone company for a
> deal that gives you less than 10 cents per local call (which is
> the amount you'll pay from most of the VoIP providers). This
> option is probably only achievable for larger businesses.
>
> If you are getting ADSL2+ QoS should not be too great a problem. You
> will still need QoS traffic shaping but your internet connection will
> probably run faster than parts of my LAN.
>
> I'd be interested to hear how you go with this if only for purely
> selfish personal financial benefit.
>
> Cheers.
>
> David
MSO is away putting fibreoptic cable in at a mine site; but he sees the end of
PABX coming. Currently the big stuff runs Linux and is altered by the usual
means - ssh into a terminal session.
You can get a second hand PABX which will do a small place for a long time.
(If interested, private mail only please). It is probably a solution which is
cheaper than Asterisk right now, but if setting up a medium size place now
I'd be using a computer based solution ie get some geek to configure Asterisk
for me.
Liz
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