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

[Mark Armstrong]

Justin

Interesting findings.  To summarise our position we sell Asterisk box's with
Polycom handsets.  SIP is the protocal that the end devices (phonesetc)
speak to the Asterisk box, you are right is the benchmark over H323 etc. IAX
is the very efficient language that Asterisk box's talk to each other with,
efficient my engineers feel even over SIP. We are installing lots of systems
that are working very effectivley running SIP and IAX between sites.  Re the
handsets Cisco is probably the pick with Polycom very much less expensive
and almost as good a quality. 


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Mark Armstrong
Managing Director
ACC Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Justin McAteer
Sent: Wednesday, 18 May 2005 6:50 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Full Turn-Key System Update & Request

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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