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

[shadowym]

I am simply stating that Enterprise class equipment is generally mean't for
people who don't really care about price.  Most people involved in Asterisk
are here because they want Enterprise class features at small business
prices.

Chill out dude,

Take your own advice and think before you post.  My post was not a slight
against you.  I have absolutely no idea who you are and could care less what
you can and cannot afford.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Booth [mailto:tbooth at visioncom.us] 
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 10:50 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?

shadowym wrote:
> If you need to ask the price you can't afford it.  I'm sure their 
> stuff is nice but Enterprise class equipment and pricing is just that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Booth [mailto:tbooth at visioncom.us]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?
>
> 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
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> how the pricing?
>
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_*If you need to ask the price you can't afford it. *_  Hey smart guy it was
a general questions...I own 2 telecom businesses and I can afford it. Do
yourself a favor and think before you type.