Re: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide
Cisco = Big $ email me direct and I will explain how you can save. Brandon - Original Message - From: Tim Jackson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide After our department went to using *, Ive had several inquiries about doing VoIP for my entire organization (Small county). We have ~10 locations with various links in between (Mostly p2p T1s, some Frame (1.544mbps commit), some ISDN, some VPN over 768kbit internet) Right now were using several NEC Electra Elite systems, and 2 Nortel Meridian systems. In one of the main locations we have 29 POTS lines going into the NEC system. At another location we have a single PRI, and at a lot of the other locations we have just analog phones. Cisco has approached us about using all Cisco equipment, but their idea is going to be costly. Is it wise to use Asterisk on something this big? I am not a PBX/Voice guy, I just do IP up here right now. Any tips, pointers, design guides, or advice to give? Tim Jackson Network Engineer Angelina County, Texas (936)639-4827 office (936)414-6723 mobile ___Asterisk-Users mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-usersTo UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide
How can we save? J -Tim -Original Message- From: Brandon Patterson (peering) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:13 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide Cisco = Big $ email me direct and I will explain how you can save. Brandon - Original Message - From: Tim Jackson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide After our department went to using *, Ive had several inquiries about doing VoIP for my entire organization (Small county). We have ~10 locations with various links in between (Mostly p2p T1s, some Frame (1.544mbps commit), some ISDN, some VPN over 768kbit internet) Right now were using several NEC Electra Elite systems, and 2 Nortel Meridian systems. In one of the main locations we have 29 POTS lines going into the NEC system. At another location we have a single PRI, and at a lot of the other locations we have just analog phones. Cisco has approached us about using all Cisco equipment, but their idea is going to be costly. Is it wise to use Asterisk on something this big? I am not a PBX/Voice guy, I just do IP up here right now. Any tips, pointers, design guides, or advice to give? Tim Jackson Network Engineer Angelina County, Texas (936)639-4827 office (936)414-6723 mobile ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide
Woops, wasn't supposed to go to the list ;) -Tim -Original Message- From: Tim Jackson Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:16 PM To: Brandon Patterson (peering); Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide How can we save? H -Tim -Original Message- From: Brandon Patterson (peering) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:13 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide Cisco = Big $ email me direct and I will explain how you can save. Brandon - Original Message - From: Tim Jackson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:03 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide After our department went to using *, I've had several inquiries about doing VoIP for my entire organization (Small county). We have ~10 locations with various links in between (Mostly p2p T1s, some Frame (1.544mbps commit), some ISDN, some VPN over 768kbit internet) Right now we're using several NEC Electra Elite systems, and 2 Nortel Meridian systems. In one of the main locations we have 29 POTS lines going into the NEC system. At another location we have a single PRI, and at a lot of the other locations we have just analog phones. Cisco has approached us about using all Cisco equipment, but their idea is going to be costly. Is it wise to use Asterisk on something this big? I am not a PBX/Voice guy, I just do IP up here right now. Any tips, pointers, design guides, or advice to give? Tim Jackson Network Engineer Angelina County, Texas (936)639-4827 office (936)414-6723 mobile ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide
My current asterisk box is a Quad Xeon 450 (2mb cache) IBM Netfinity 7000. About how many SIP extensions (normal usage) would this machine handle? What about redundancy? How would I implement an auto-failover Asterisk box at a remote location, or could I? Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Tim Jackson Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Organization wide Tim Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After our department went to using *, I've had several inquiries about doing VoIP for my entire organization (Small county). We have ~10 locations with various links in between (Mostly p2p T1s, some Frame (1.544mbps commit), some ISDN, some VPN over 768kbit internet) Right now we're using several NEC Electra Elite systems, and 2 Nortel Meridian systems. In one of the main locations we have 29 POTS lines going into the NEC system. At another location we have a single PRI, and at a lot of the other locations we have just analog phones. Cisco has approached us about using all Cisco equipment, but their idea is going to be costly. Is it wise to use Asterisk on something this big? I am not a PBX/Voice guy, I just do IP up here right now. Any tips, pointers, design guides, or advice to give? Cisco hardware and software is amazingly expensive. You can save lots of money by using asterisk, digium hardware, and possibly Cisco phones. I recently helped our ~200 person, 10 location company migrate away from an entire Cisco solution to one using asterisk with Cisco handsets. Not only is it vastly cheaper, but it is a much easier system to manage and maintain. I highly recommend you look further into an asterisk system. The only thing that stands out that might not work so well is the 29 pots lines in a single location. Ideally you could install a PRI in this location, but if not you'll need some other less common hardware to handle all those lines. On the IP side, the calls don't actually use up that much bandwidth, probably 30kbits/sec/call if you use ILBC. The only thing you need to do is make sure that all the RTP packets are delivered with a higher priority. Either custom queuing or bandwidth reservation or both will make everyone's life better. -- Matt Ranney - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
