John - You might consider getting a T1 and splitting it using some of the
pipe for your voice traffic and some for your data traffic. You can set up
a VLAN on your internal network for your phones if you want to migrate to
SIP phones and Asterisk, or you could implement a channel bank out to
Sending the message 3 times within 7 minutes wont get you responses
any faster than just sending it once.
Welcome to asterisk. Put your seat belts on and get ready for a few
weeks of reading, testing, and caffeine. Here are my recommendations
(assuming you want to set it up alone, otherwise just
John,
I just switched from an old Merlin system myself! (haven't looked back).
I was in the same situation as you (Windows server sysadmin with minimal
*nix experience).
Here's the setup I have currently in production:
-Custom built server: Gigabyte motherboard with AMD Sempron 2800+ (I
