[asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?

[Tim Booth]

Brett wrote:
> You guys need to look into the Ranch Networks solution.  With a Hosted 
> PBX, you can put the Asterisk box at you location.  Then we take a 
> Ranch Networks box and put it at the customers site.  the Ranch 
> Networks box does all the NAT traversal, qos, firewall, etc. plus it 
> will bring the media locally so you don't have to go over the internet 
> for simple branch to branch calls.  Plus, the ranch Networks box 
> provides high availability or clustering if you need that.
>
> There ya go, one box fixes all.
>
>
>
> On 10/30/06, *Ron Wellsted* <ron at wellsted.org.uk 
> <mailto:ron at wellsted.org.uk>> wrote:
>
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>     shadowym wrote:
>     > If you don't have full control of the network from end to end
>     (or have
>     > someone do that for you), it will never be a reliable solution
>     in my humble
>     > opinion.  People are getting away with it in some cases but the
>     bottom line
>     > is they cannot guarantee quality of service.
>     >
>
>     I must agree with this having seen a 5 phone office with a hosted
>     system
>     over ADSL.  The system was never reliable and they eventually scrapped
>     it and came to us.  As we are in the same building, I setup their
>     phones
>     on to asterisk with their own contexts, etc. and replaced their simple
>     switch with a Linksys 224P (poe + layer3 managed).  Inbound calls are
>     presented on a ISDN BRI (ZapHFC), outbound via VoIP.  The only
>     comment
>     has been about the occasional slight echo.
>
>     - --
>     Ron Wellsted
>     ron at wellsted.org.uk <mailto:ron at wellsted.org.uk>
>     http://www.wellsted.org.uk
>     N 52.567623 , W 2.137621 Linux Counter No. 202120
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how the pricing?