[Asterisk-Users] Large Enterprises using asterisk

[Jay Milk]

Argh.... Why do I always hear about things so late?  Just talked to a
tech from my biggest client (I'm a contract programmer by trade).
Apparently, they were looking into getting a new phone system, 20
channels on a T1, 35 extensions, voice-mail, IVR, call-queue for a
call-center.  One of the techs was pushing an IP solution, but having
been Altigen users for a while, the boss didn't want to hear about
another "soft-pbx".  They got raped by Nortel (I think) for about $20K +
support.  Boss wanted to have a "box that only does phone, which we can
put in the closet and forget about".

I think the biggest hurdle Asterisk will face is overcoming the failed
experiments such as Altigen, and the perception that a state-of-the-art
PBX does not need maintenance.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu [mailto:m3freak at rogers.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:12 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Large Enterprises using asterisk
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 10:16, Sunrise Ltd wrote:
> > and "an effort to develop and maintain an open-source 
> telephony server 
> > for UNIX based operating systems including Linux and BSD."
> [snip]
> 
> I agree!  This would be an excellent way to market Asterisk.  We're
> working with a marketing company at the moment to develop
> marketing/sales materials and to generate interest in our 
> company.  What
> you've stated above about Asterisk sounds like a PERFECT way to sell
> Asterisk to the masses.