[Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Installation Consulting

[Dan Iordanescu]

Joshua,

Do you still have spare capacity on the trunk side? Tell me in detail
what you have there. You might be able to increase the number of
extensions with an Asterisk box and use both PBXs (* and Meridian) at
the same time. The dial plan will have to be changed and an extra digit
added to make distinction between Meridian and Asterisk. If you have
extra trunk capacity (T1 or FXO/FXS) then it's going to work. I've done
it in the past.

About IP phones. Yeah, pricing, the eternal problem. There is a phone I
worked with, from http://www.act-tel.com.tw The guy I know only sells
high quantity (1000 pcs) and then  he comes close to your price target
of $100 per phone. I've just sent him an email asking who might sell
just 10 of them and for how much. The quality is similar to Snom's, the
display smaller, but still 2 lines.

12K for a system with 270 extensions is pretty good pricing, hard to
beat. I'm thinking of caveats like: The new system is not Meridian,
which means you can't use the Norstar phones (are they the proprietary
ones?) and you have to buy stacks of phones.

I can help you with the system but I need to know all about your
Meridian PBX, service provider connection, T1 PRIs or TIEs and so on. If
you're interested, I think we should take it offline.

Don't catch your soft(ware) fingers in the Nortel switch :)
Dan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Vickery" <jvickery at healthdec.com>
To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:43 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Installation Consulting


> I work for a small company that has outgrown its Meridian PBX.  We
have
> been quoted a price of $12k to replace the existing phone system with
a
> new one that will support up to 270 connected phones.  We currently
have
> 70 Norstar telephones.  It seems a bit of a pity to spend all that
money
> on an old proprietary phone system, but it is certainly cheaper than
the
> quotes we got for VoIP solutions (~100k).  I did some research, and it
> seems that given our existing wiring (all of our phones appear to be
wired
> with Cat5 cable with RJ45 jacks on a separate physical network from
our
> data network) we could replace all of the existing telephones with
VoIP
> phones and use an Asterisk PBX to communicate with them all.  With the
> Cisco phones going for $400/each this too seemed out of reach.
However, I
> have seen cheaper phones available, down to less than $100 a piece.
>
> Now the "biz" part.  I'm a software developer who just happens to be
> interested in networking and telephony.  I can't do it myself, so we
would
> need to hire a consultant.  If this project seems doable, I'm looking
for
> recommendations on where we might find such a consultant.
>
> P.S. I tried to join this list, but never received a confirmation
email.
> Since I don't know my status I would appreciate it if anyone who
responds
> sends a copy of the response directly to my email address
> (jvickery at healthdec.com)
>
> --
> Joshua Vickery
> Software Developer
> Health Decisions, Inc.
> 6350 Quadrangle Dr., Suite 300
> Chapel Hill NC 27517
> (919) 967 1111 x239
> www.healthdec.com
> jvickery at healthdec.com
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