+1 we saved a huge amount going with the Digium systems when we went to VoIP. Best bang for the buck as far as we are concerned
John W. Cook Director of Network Operations Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security + VSP4, VTSP4 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kramer, Jack Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] How much to implement a Cisco telephone implementation 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
