[asterisk-biz] Small business traditional phones or IP Phone?

[Tim Booth]

Brian Fertig wrote:
> Wow..  Firstly why would you want to torment yourself with Trixbox..  You
> are asking for a nightmare.
> If you want something like that try Digium's GUI.  I have been messing with
> it for a couple weeks now
> and I must say its 1000 times better than trixbox..  As far as the TDM2400
> that would be fine but you
> will need 66 or 110 blocks for punching down the Amphenol cable.  Ultimately
> it comes down to what will
> best service your customer.
>
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> ........::::::::::.........
> Brian Fertig
> Sr. Data & Telecom Engineer
> Molten, Inc.
> Delaware Office
>
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> |bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of pjcrump at bitstream.net
> |Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:55 AM
> |To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com
> |Subject: [asterisk-biz] Small business traditional phones or IP Phone?
> |
> |Working with a small business they have 5-8 phones and a fax machine.  I
> |will be using Trixbox and am comfortable with that.. the question is,
> |does
> |it make more sense to get new Linksys 942 IP phones or purchase a digium
> |card and reuse their existing phones? note that their existing phones
> |are
> |just regular household phones - nothing special.
> |
> |If the existing phones are re-used, from looking at the digium site it
> |appears that we would be looking at a digium TDM2400P for approx $400
> |bucks??
> |
> |Thoughts???
> |
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We have installed 10 Trixbox systems for clients. If you know how to set 
it up and configure its a great solution for a small business. Just 
don't slack on the hardware and install it on a Walmart machine.  
AsteriskNow is another one but we have not installed in at any client 
sites yet.