I did a test site, installed by a vendor - for roughly $20k, This included a 48 port POE switch, Cisco router, and 40 Cisco 7960 phones using Covad to host the VM. Covad has a great feature set and for full blown VM with all the features it is about $30-$40 a person you can get about 14-15 simultaneous calls per circuit. Unfortunately they have proven to be unstable, having a frequent (once to twice a month VM outages) - I have investigated other hosted solutions (M5,Paetec, etc) but their monthly per person charges are usually higher, and they take much longer to provision changes where Covad's changes are instantaneous. The advantage to having it hosted is that you don't need to upgrade the backend or worry about power outages taking out your phone system. Of course, Covad's outages have taken me down several times...
I have begun to look at Asterick myself.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharyn Schmidt Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: VOIP class 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. We are getting our direction from our new, parent company. They are the ones requiring us to do this. 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. 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 :) 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/ 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/
