On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rubin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > We ended up moving to SIP trunks here (3 people). > [...]
> We took the extra $140 and used it to buy a Digium system and SIP phones > for ~$3,000 - in about 20 months it's paid off and we start seeing > savings. We opted for the non-free phone PBX appliance and higher end > Aastra phones, so our hardware cost was higher than it could have been - > Trixbox is free and runs on cheap PC hardware. > > The upshot is that we've been using the system for a year and it's been > fantastic - once you can easily transfer calls between extensions, have > real menus for callers to navigate when you can't answer the phone, and > all of the other features of a proper PBX, you'll wonder how you lived > without them for so long :) > > > Rubin > [...] Since the topic has turned toward SIP, I'll throw in the requisite plug for sipX: http://www.sipfoundry.org If you're considering a PBX solution, and are willing to look at VoIP options, you owe it to yourself to take a look at sipX. There is an alternative to Asterisk! :) Kevin
