We junked our Asterisk system with basic features and a POTS-SIP router gateway for a ThinkingPhones pure-SIP solution. It wasn't cheap, purchasing Polycom SIP550 handsets (nine sets, one with the operator sidecar) but support has been excellent and monthly pricing reasonable. All of the swanky features are included with each phone's config that they hammer out, far more than the fight we were giving it. Polycoms are not known for easy configurations...
A couple of stations ring at home offices handsets too; with a VPN and the SIP phone you can be literally anywhere in the world... worked great from London. Cheap, simple, and sexy follows the "pick any two" ideology. This one is simple and sexy, with moderate overall costs. Which two are most important? -D On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rubin Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > We ended up moving to SIP trunks here (3 people). > > Our setup was: > 1 FairPoint business line @ $130-150/mo incl long distance > 1 Vongage (yuck) @ $32/mo unmetered > 1 Contact Voicemail/ Answering service @ $85/mo > Total: $267/mo > > We moved our phone service to SIP trunks, and got 4 @ $30/mo for a
