The software costs nothing but you have to pay for that hardware. Then maintain it.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Jayson Baker <[email protected]>wrote: > PRI is something like $600/mo. On one particularly busy site we have about > 200 users on it, and never seen it go above 12 active channels. > > The ATA connects to the antenna. In our case, most are UBNT units. The > UBNT does PPPoE and NAT for the customer, but VLAN 999 is passed straight > through. The ATA picks this up and bridges the rest. VoIP switch at the > tower is on VLAN 999, so the ATA gets it's IP from the switch and connects > directly to it without any routers. > > Use something like Trix if you think Asterisk is too much work. Cost... I > don't know... we downloaded Asterisk for free, so it didn't cost us > anything. > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Josh Luthman > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > How much is a PRI for each tower? > > > > What is the ATA connecting to? > > > > I've tried Asterisk and there is absolutely no comparison versus my > current > > platform in simplicity. Way too much work and cost in my opinion... > > > > Josh Luthman > > Office: 937-552-2340 > > Direct: 937-552-2343 > > 1100 Wayne St > > Suite 1337 > > Troy, OH 45373 > > > > “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to > continue > > that counts.” > > --- Winston Churchill > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jayson Baker <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Roll you own. > > > > > > We have PRI's at our tower sites (at least the primary sites), and > > > redundant > > > Asterisk switches. > > > > > > The switches have a VLAN, which is common throughout the entire network > > > down > > > to the ATA/IP Phone. > > > > > > VoIP doesn't touch any router. The ATA at customers house is on the > same > > > VLAN as the switch, so no NAT issues or anything. > > > > > > Because switch is at the tower, it's only the last mile of QoS we have > to > > > worry about. > > > > > > We've done it many different ways--started out wholesaling, rebranding, > > > etc. > > > So far this has been the simpliest and best-working solution yet. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Kevin Sullivan > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > We'd like to start offering VoIP to our wireless customers, and we've > > > taken > > > > a look at a couple of packaged soultions like NetSapiens. What is > > > everyone > > > > else using? We'd like to start at a lower $$ than the $17,000 that > > we've > > > > been hearing from the packaged deals. > > > > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
