On Friday, December 28, 2007, 12:50:23, Sharyn Schmidt wrote: >> Are you planning on implementing an open source (e.g. www.asterisk.org) >> solution or a proprietary one? > > I believe we are going with whatever Cisco uses.
This covers a wide area. Cisco makes both VoIP phones and (for lack of anything better to call it) VoIP server software. > We are getting our direction from our new, parent company. They are > the ones requiring us to do this. Then you should get more info from them. Are they planning on having a single enterprise wide dialplan where anyone can directly dial anyone elses extension? Is each remote office going to be its own 'island'? >> Are you going to be doing the design, sizing, and installation yourself or >> are you having an outside vendor do it? > > I probably have the option of going either way on this. I'd prefer to > design it myself and perhaps get an outside vendor if we need > more/different cabling, but I'm open to either. Cabling is only a small part of the physical design. Of much more interest is migrating from your existing PBX system to the new one. Are you going to have a flag day or is it going to be a gradual migration? > At the moment, I don't know enough about it to make that call. I do > know that even if we do use an outside vendor for the initial design > and implementation, I still better know how to fix it when it breaks > :) If a Cisco based system is decreed theres no shortage of places that offer training. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." - Ambassador Kosh To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
