[Asterisk-Users] Forklift a 2000 phone PBX

[Ryan Stark]

cat3 will do 10bt, YMMV based on the install job and length of the runs, 
but for qaulifying the lines there is a simple one word answer, 
pentascanner. I've got one, if the job is in the sf bay area you can 
rent me for a day.

-Ryan

Michael Welter wrote:
> I'm staring at an RFP--this company wants to replace a 2000 position PBX 
> (at eight locations) with a new system.  Their mindset is Nortel/Avaya 
> because they talk about 28-button digital sets.  The do specify a few IP 
> phones for just one location, so they are aware of VoIP.
> 
> I'm going to bid on this--there's nothing to lose except the time it 
> takes to write the proposal.  I'll bid an off site Asterisk system with 
> SIP telephones.  Using the metric of 100 SIP phones/box, I'll bid twenty 
> Asterisk boxes with ten boxes at each of two hosting locations.  Each 
> phone will have registrations to both sites.
> 
> The big unknown is wiring.  I'm going to assume the worst, that the 
> existing LAN is overloaded.  I would a) have to make LAN wiring out of 
> existing Cat3 wiring, or b) install a new voice-only LAN.
> 
> Does anyone know how to qualify existing Cat3 wiring for use as a LAN?
> 
> Has anyone does an Asterisk system on this scale?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Mike
> 
> P.S.  Sorry for the cross post, but I would like everyone to see this.
> 
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