I would recommend taking a look at Digium Switchvox—Digium is the company behind Asterisk (hugely popular open-source PBX) and Switchvox is their fully-supported commercial offering. You can save a ton of money.
On Mar 26, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We are looking at replacing our old Nortel BCM 450 for about 275 users. The shortlist is Cisco and Microsoft Lync. We are leaning towards Cisco a bit more expensive but also only 1 vendor (the President likes the “hardware” platform, even though Cisco runs with VM’s). Anyhow implementation is about $66k (Lync is about $56k), to me that sounds like about twice too much, has anyone have done a similar implementation, and / or is it a fair price? And we would do the placement of the phones ourselves. __________________________________ Stefan Jafs
