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

[Justin McAteer]

IAX is a media transport protocol that Asterisk supports. Asterisk is 
not "based" on IAX, and Asterisk does not use IAX (or any IP transport 
protocol) internally.

Thank You,
Justin McAteer
Sales @ Digium, Inc.



Tim Simms wrote:

>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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