[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...
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>>>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
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>>>$17,407 or less than half of a nortel system cost from your favorite 
>>>teleco.
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>>>Steak Dinners can replace billable hours if they fit into the 
>>>schedule... :)
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>>>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.
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>>>>>Minimum you could get a decent phone guy is $75ish.
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>>>>>FWIW I'm $100 an hour if the customer inists on hourly. I'd rather 
>>>>>quote  the price for the finished job.
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>>>>>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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>>>>>>>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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>>features using
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>>>>>>>web
>>>>>>>browser?
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>>>>>>>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.
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>>    * 1U (1.75") Rackmount Chassis
>>    * Single 3.0 Ghz Intel(r) Pentium(r) 4 with EM64T Technology 2Mb
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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
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>>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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