Quoting Diego Iastrubni, from the post of Tue, 15 Aug: > > > >There is little very little technical information on IP Centrex (other > >then the marketing fliers). It's service based (10-25$ per > >user/month), You get an Ethernet port to which you connect your switch > >and IP phones. > freedom .... blabla... free software ..... yada yada yada... you loose > control...
plus lots of features you can build into asterisk later when you need them, IF you have the free time to figure them out :-) > I don't see how did you get these figures. According to your data, > maintaing an asterisk box for 48 months is more then: > > 25*48 USD = 1200USD > > is this the price of "apt-get install asteirsk" ...? or am I getting > something wrong? you don't calculate the needed hardware, like a server, extra hub ports and cables, time configuring the machine, time spent on figuring out what you did wrong and reconfiguring it, time wasted on playing around with the new toy phone switch, adding a security risk if the switch is open to the Internet (which it should be of course), and let's not forget the hardware price of at least two FXO ports and maybe several FXS ports or SIP hardware. -- Knight in shining armor Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
