[Asterisk-Users] Re: Sorry, Newbie here

[Chris Shaw]

I think one of the greatest things about * is that not only do you get the
most flexible PBX I've ever worked with, but it also can act as a IP gateway
for much less than traditional hardware IP gateways (a. la.
Cisco/Mediatrix/etc...). You can use it to extend an existing PBX and save
thousands per month by terminating your PSTN calls via IP...

 -Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Kawakami" <jkkawakami at optellabs.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:24 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Sorry, Newbie here


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> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Sorry, Newbie here
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> >     I never heard of Asterisk before today, but from what i'm looking at
> on the website and hearing, it sounds pretty incredibly.  If I understand
> correctly with a 1,500.00 Wildcard TE410p T1 card, a good BSD or Linux
> Server, and a couple IP phones or Netmeeting on a few workstations, and of
> course, Asterisk which is free; I call have a small call center.
> >
> >     This can't be?  I was looking at tens of thousands for a Cisco
> solution.  Any comments or insight is welcome.
> >
>
> after working the telecom industry for the past 10 years i can tell you to
> believe it.  your statement is absolutely true
>
> dont kid yourself though, * has some gotchas especially in call center
> functionality, and * requires learning from scratch how open source
software
> developers interpreted what hardware engineers have done for the past 30
> years.  if you have experience in implementing open source solutions and
> some telephony background you can build just about anything you want to do
> with a telephone and a computer with *.  usually there is a trade off in
> cost (read capital expenditure) and installation and maint of these
> solutions.
>
> i would suggest to you contacting a consultant (check the listings on
> voip-info.org) and contact someone near you about your requirements.  or
do
> what we all did and download the software from CVS and dive in.
>
> welcome to the brave new world
>
> Jason Kawakami
> www.optellabs.com
>
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