<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Bagnall</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@minotaur.cc">lists@minotaur.cc</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Should or shouldn't asterisk manage firewall/qos/dhcp/routing etc? or<br>> when selling it into an existing site is it better to allow existing<br>> devices to manage this functionality?<br><br>There's room (and demand) in the market for both. Certainly from our experience I'd say it's roughly a 50/50 split.
<br><br>About half the installs we do invariably end up with us getting involved with the client's data network, so using existing routers, switches, etc. often works fine. In many cases the client's using cheap consumer routers and they're delighted that we replace them with decent kit. In this scenario, being able to offer integrated units would be an advantage for clients with space considerations.
</blockquote><div><br>A selling point, which admittedly is minor would be the $10-20 or so per month in electrical savings. Integrated devices when all of them are on all the time can result in a cost savings, a marketing fact that is often overlooked. Granted this can take years to pay back the cost of the device, but its something that I havent seen marketed. I dont know what rates are in other places, in Ireland and Holland residential electric is about 2-3x what it was in the US which could amount to 15-20 euro/month.
<br><br>Its also something that really only applies to smaller installations, since large ones would have performance impacts somewhere, and generally require more than one box. Of course the larger ones arent likely to care about what would amount to pennies in the grand scheme of things.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>3) here in the UK where DSL is delivered over PPPoA, we still need to have separate ADSL modems doing PPPoA authentication and delivering the pfSense router an Ethernet presentation, so despite best efforts, it's still not a "one-box" solution
</blockquote><div><br>why? There are some devices that do pppoa with dsl lines in linux. Granted it may not end up being the solution you want, and there is the added cost of a pppoa device for the linux box, but none the less it is possible.
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