Yeah, I've thought about trying a Raspberry Pi as a cheap, IP-only PBX. Should have more than enough "oomph" for a small office environment.
We have had great success running Asterisk directly on MikroTik RouterBoards, inside of a MetaROUTER VM. Of course, both this solution and the Raspberry Pi can only be used in a pure IP environment. Those Blackfin-based embedded Asterisk systems that Atcom et al. manufacture (http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=440) are also intriguing, but I haven't been able to find a good U.S.-based supplier/distributor. -- Nathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Carullo Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 6:53 AM To: Bryce Duchcherer; [email protected]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Small IP PBX - Grandstream UCM Oh yeah - I should have noted - we have one running at customer site for 16 phones and its a blueberry pie or whatever those things are called lol. Cost less than 100 bucks and we even have two network interfaces on them (one usb) Scott Carullo Technical Operations 855-FLSPEED x102 <http://www.flhsi.com/files/emaillogo.jpg> ________________________________ From: "Bryce Duchcherer" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 6:16 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [WISPA] Small IP PBX - Grandstream UCM I have one of these coming in to try out, they're dirt cheap and are supposed to be decent. They support up to 8 calls and are supposed to run on asterisk. http://www.atcom.cn/IP02.html Bryce D NETAGO From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Carullo Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 16:08 To: WISPA General List; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Small IP PBX - Grandstream UCM I've never been a fan of anything grandstream has ever made so I wouldn't go there. JMO Get some other solution for the PBX (running your own software on a nice little atom works great / some flavor of asterisk) and do yourself a favor and pick up some yealink phones. The name kept me away from the longest time but I have tried dozens of phones and right now a T46G is on my desk and I won't give it up. Great price too. Best phone I have ever used and previously I had polycom soundpoint 650. This one hands down is a better solution and its half the price. Shhhhh... don't tell everyone I need them in stock! Scott Carullo Technical Operations 855-FLSPEED x102 <http://www.flhsi.com/files/emaillogo.jpg> ________________________________ From: "Chris Fabien" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 1:29 PM To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Small IP PBX - Grandstream UCM It seems like a box on site would make routing/nat issues easier to manage especially for customers who may not have our Internet or want to keep a second internet provider for redundancy. It seems like a bunch of ip phones behind nat connecting up to our switch or a hosted solution would be problematic. If you have a suggestion on a solid solution i'm all ears, want to learn whats available and how others are doing this. On May 14, 2014 1:21 PM, "Faisal Imtiaz" <[email protected]> wrote: Why do you want to put a 'box' on-site ? Why not hosted PBX, and have IP Phones ? Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 <tel:305%20663%205518%20x%20232> Help-desk: (305)663-5518 <tel:%28305%29663-5518> Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ________________________________ From: "Chris Fabien" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:40:10 PM Subject: [WISPA] Small IP PBX - Grandstream UCM Anyone tried out this Grandstream IP PBX? Looking for a low cost option we can use for small businesses with 4-8 phones. Also need to redo our office phones so I have a nice chance to try out a new product before selling one to a customer. Any suggestions other than the grandstream are welcome too. _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
