[Asterisk-Users] UPS for Asterisk

[Greg Blakely]

Having worked in the telephone equipment business for years, I've found that there are those customers who want the cheapest possible solution -- a refurbished PBX running on the same circuit breaker that the rest of the stuff in the janitor's closet does.
 
And there are those customers who see that the real cost savings is in having a reliable phone system.  Those customers put the PBX into as controlled an environment as possible.  At a bare minimum, they purchase a good-quality UPS; preferred would be an environment that would support a finicky main frame computer -- air conditioning, humidity control, etc.
 
Businesses get what they pay for.  But, if they use Asterisk, they can take the savings they have realized over buying a traditional PBX, buy a decent UPS, and still have a chunk of change left over.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com on behalf of David Brodbeck
Sent: Mon 1/24/2005 9:49 AM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] UPS for Asterisk



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shoval Tomer [mailto:shoval at softov.co.il]

> On the other hand, telephony down time is unacceptable. PBXs have a
> counter part. Plain old PBXs are expected to run 24x7. real 24x7, with
> uptimes of 99.999. And if you think about it, they actually do.

That would be news to the people who installed our (non-Asterisk) PBX.  It
has no battery backup at all.  When the power goes out, so do all our
phones.  (Except for the fax machines, which don't go through the PBX.)
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