[asterisk-biz] How much it costs to setup Asterisk and phones?
Saul Diaz
saul at cripiland.com
Thu Jan 12 18:41:31 MST 2006
Steve,
Quite so..you are totally right..
Is easy to break that total anyway. 17K is indeep more or less half of a
nortel installation but is way over a regular installation for a 30
seats pbx or callcenter...without custom software implementations.
regards
SAul
Steve Totaro wrote:
>Bottom line and top post. Do not do line item quotes. Sell a total
>solution. Let them compare your total solution to someone else's total
>solution.
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>>asbiz wrote:
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>>>What's the configuration of $3407.30 server, or is it two
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>>servers? And
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>>>isn't $300 good enough to buy good IP phones?
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>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Andrew Latham [mailto:lathama at gmail.com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:09 PM
>>>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
>>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How much it costs to setup Asterisk and
>>>phones?
>>>
>>>OK...
>>>
>>>30 ext * $300 (labor and cheap phones) = $9000
>>>2 * $700 POE Switches = $1400
>>>1 * $3407.30 Server = $3407.30
>>>2 * $800 UPS = $1600
>>>20 * $100 labor = $2000
>>>
>>>$17,407 or less than half of a nortel system cost from your favorite
>>>teleco.
>>>
>>>Steak Dinners can replace billable hours if they fit into the
>>>schedule... :)
>>>
>>>
>>>On 1/12/06, Paul <ast2005 at 9ux.com> wrote:
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>>>>I might work for as little as $50 an hour if the customer buys a
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>>>prepaid
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>>>>block of 40 hours at a time.
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>>>>However, the point of my reply to the OP is that I start
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>>charging as
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>>>>soon as I start working. That includes going over his inadequate
>>>>description of the work needed. Some people think I am arrogant
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>>>because
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>>>>I don't do free evaluations. My standard "sales proposal" is rather
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>>>simple:
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>>>>Ad hoc time - $N per hour(subject to credit approval)
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>>Prepaid block of
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>>>>X hours at Y per hour.
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>>>>Some prospects find this to be too arrogant but it filters out the
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>>>ones
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>>>>who are wasting my time.
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>>>>I should mention that I don't charge people for calls or meetings
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>>>where
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>>>>I discuss my qualifications. I might even give them some
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>>free general
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>>>>advice, especially if they are buying me a good lunch.
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>>>>Mark Phillips wrote:
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>>>>>$50 an hour? What country? Not the US that's for sure.
>>>>>
>>>>>Minimum you could get a decent phone guy is $75ish.
>>>>>
>>>>>FWIW I'm $100 an hour if the customer inists on hourly. I'd rather
>>>>>quote the price for the finished job.
>>>>>
>>>>>Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
>>>>>Randolph, NJ
>>>>>http://www.g7ltt.com
>>>>>
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>>>>>Paul wrote:
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>>>>>>asbiz wrote:
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>>>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>>>How much it costs to have somebody setup an Asterisk server, for
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>>>let
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>>>>>>>say
>>>>>>>15 extensions in one office, 15 in another, and make a good IVR
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>>>menu
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>>>>>>>with call recording, queuing and other features? Also if needed,
>>>>>>>
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>>>to
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>>>>>>>setup web interfaces to access recordings and other
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>>features using
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>>>>>>>
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>>>a
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>>>>>>>web
>>>>>>>browser?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Zeeshan A Zakaria
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>maybe $50/hour plus expenses?
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>>Hi Cheap phones 300?
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>>even a polycom 301 that is not definitelly a cheap phone will
>>be around 200 including labor, a POE switch is a great switch
>>i recommend u stick to them... other switch could work... but...
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>>i am sure u can get the 30 polycoms with less than that. so
>>with labor for set the phone we can go to 200. plus shipping
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>>we try grandsreams bt 102 ... S.... Horrible, i have a call
>>center with 300 of then.. what a nightmare
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>>but with the 1.0.7.11 firmware all the prblems disappear and
>>u have decent callcenter.
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>>with 30 phones u don't need a super server as was discussed
>>in this list before u can get a server like this.
>>
>> * 1U (1.75") Rackmount Chassis
>> * Single 3.0 Ghz Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 with EM64T Technology 2Mb
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>Cache
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>> * 800MHz Front Side Bus
>> * 4 DIMM slots for up to 8GB of DDR2 PC4200 RAM - 1Gb Low-Profile
>> PC4200 Unbuffered ECC DDR2 (2-512) Included
>> * Integrated 4-channel SATA Controller - 120Gb 7200 RPM
>>(8MB cache)
>> Included
>> * Four Hot Swap 3.5" Drive Bays
>> * Slimline Optical Drive
>> * Dual Integrated Gigabit Ethernet NICs
>> * One 64-bit/133MHz Full-Height PCI-X or PCI-E x16 slot (x8 lanes)
>> * One 64-bit/133MHz Low-Profile PCI-X slot
>> * Integrated ATI Rage XL Video with 8MB dedicated RAM
>> * One 350W Power Supply
>> * Includes Ball Bearing Rails
>> * Linux Preload
>> * **Single Span T1/E1 PCI Card
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>>for 2600 USD plus shipping. if u don't need a digium card
>>just remove 595.00 usd so basically is 2105
>>
>>Labor.. depends... usually btw 50 - 100 usd the hr in the
>>states.. we are modest we change 85 usd/hr but we can provide
>>u even a GUI for your asterisk server that will control the
>>server and ur SIP phones.
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>>pls check http://www.cripiland.com/screenshots/manager1.jpg.
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>>We also provide custom development at 100 usd the hr...
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>>And support.
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>>Regards
>>Saul Diaz
>>Intouch-VoIP Inc
>>Aurora, Colorado.
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