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

[Mike Hammett]

How redundant is it?  I'm still waiting to hear from them directly, but is it completely 1 + 1 redundant?  It might protect against Asterisk failures, but does it then become a single point of failure?


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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com


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  From: Brett 
  To: ron at wellsted.org.uk ; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion 
  Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 11:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?


  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> 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.

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