[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hardware configuration and cost?

[Michael Bielicki]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:06, bluepuma at excite.com wrote:
> Hi there, 
> 
> our old pbx contract will expire soon and we have now 2 pbx companies trying hard to sell us a new VoIP one. I am usually a friend of open source software and read about the Asterisk poject, but I can not assess if Asterisk fulfills all our requirements. It would be great to receive some input from experienced users to be able to convince our management.
> 
> My question is if the following scenario is possible with Asterisk and the estimated cost for it:
> 
> HARDWARE
> - 1 external PRI E1 S2M 30 channel ISDN line
> - 1 internal PRI E1 S2M 30 channel ISDN line (for IVR test server)
te410p can do both. (around 1500US$ for 4 E1's on one card which cn be
internal external whatever)
> - 8 internal BRI S0 regular 2 channel ISDN lines (for smaller IVR test servers)
OctoBRI for www.junghanns.net (around 1.1k EUR)
> - 8 internal analog lines (for DECT phones and fax)
2 tdm40b (around 400$ each)
> - 40 internal VoIP phones (Grandstream Budgetone?)
sure, cost depends on phones. Personally I would rather go with 3
octobri's and use isdn phones :)
> 
> SOFTWARE/FUNCTIONALITY
> - direct call through to phones with extension from external
yes
> - voice mail
yes
> - using VoIP softphone for home office days (and re-routing extension to it)
yes
> - CTI support (dialing from within Outlook using hardware VoIP phones)
there is a project for that which sems to work although we havem't
tested it yet
> - UMS support (storage of voice and fax on harddisk and possibility to mail it around)
check out the fax channel from steve underwood, it should do what you
need.
> 
> Is this possible with Asterisk and can you indicate the cost for such an environment ?

> 
> thanx a lot!
> Michael
> 
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