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

[Mike Hammett]

Not all of us are Enterprise, some want carrier class features at small 
business prices.  :-p


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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com>
To: "'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion'" 
<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 3:25 PM
Subject: RE: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?


>
> 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.
>
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