[Asterisk-biz] Full Turn-Key System Update & Request

[Robert Wolpov]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Simms" <tsimms at plethoratech.com>
To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Full Turn-Key System Update & Request


> Hey all --
>
> Thanks to everyone who has responded to me re: our solution.  I've been on
> email, phone, and IM with many of you, and I appreciate the time you all
> have put in.
>
> Here's where we're at:
> 1.  We've garnered from you all that Hosted IP PBX is not the way to go,
> because of reliability concerns, etc.  Several of you are working on this,
> but don't have a commercial production system in place yet.  Because of
> that, we may just go ahead and pull the IP PBX in house.
>
> 2.  There were concerns over the VoIP and IP PBX technology being used.
> Many suggested we stay away from IAX, but go with SIP, since SIP is 
> growing
> as the standard.  Also SIP has greater community support than IAX.  Some
> even suggested that because Asterisk is based on IAX, we should look at
> other IP PBX vendors instead of Asterisk.  Main recommendation was 
> PingTel.
>
> 3.  The two phones that were widely recommended for our mid-range budget
> were the Polycom IP 500 (though changing to the 501 soon, with more mem) 
> and
> the Sipura phones.
>
> 4.  We want to find a VoIP provider that is reliable, answers their phones
> for support, is less expensive than traditional PSTN calling, etc... but 
> as
> Preston pointed out a while back, that list might be empty.  Now with
> reliability, I understand it might be possible to contract with multiple
> carriers, so that if one goes down, the other takes over... I can't
> visualize how that works, but interested in learning more from someone who
> might be doing this.  FYI, we're probably doing close to 8000 - 10000
> minutes per month.  Area code doesn't matter much; incoming will be coming
> in on toll-free & just about all outbound calls will be outside of local
> area.  Any recommendations?
>
> 5.  Suppliers / Contractors will need to reside in the continental US. 
> But
> I find the recommendations and advice from those outside the US to be
> extremely valuable, so I welcome any input you might have for your 
> preferred
> vendors, equipment, and technologies!
>
> Still haven't figured it all out, so we don't have equipment speced out or
> the people who will configure it, but we'll make sure it's paid at a rate 
>  >
> $10/hr...  ;)
>
>
> Thanks again for all your help!  There's no way I'd be able to make an
> informed decision without this forum (unless I had way more time than I
> have, to devote to it)!
>
> Cheers,
> -Tim
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