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

[Ron Wellsted]

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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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Ron Wellsted
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