[asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company

[Douglas Garstang]

I think I'm looking for a carrier who's implementing Asterisk Matt. We're a carrier, and that probably explains a lot of the frustration, and hair tearing out we've had with Asterisks resundancy. Ie, it wasn't built with carriers in mind. It was build with IT implementations in mind. 
 
Consulting, while sounding great in principle, wouldn't work right now. Already got a day job (and there's that little issue of a non-compete clause in my contract...). Unfortunately my record is unproven yet. We are yet to deploy our product in production, but are moving towards it.  Maybe later, especially after the confidence increases. Good grief, wouldn't even know how to dig up contacts.
 
Thanks for the advice.
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Matt Florell [mailto:astmattf at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thu 7/20/2006 11:29 PM 
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion 
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company



	>From what I've seen the Asterisk systems that most of these companies
	are using are either installed or maintained by existing in-house IT
	staff , so not many new dedicated positions for it. All of the
	companies I have done installs for have their IT persons learn enough
	to do basic configurations and maintenance and if they need something
	major they go to a consultant like me.
	
	Maybe you should consider doing some freelance consulting for
	Asterisk. Asterisk consultants are in pretty high demand right now,
	especially consultants with a good track record and a lot of varied
	Asterisk experience.
	
	MATT---
	
	On 7/21/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
	> Good grief. I'm looking in the wrong places. I just am not finding data on these companies doing this. If there's so many companies implementing Asterisk, why aren't they advertising for people? I've been searching all the job sites for months now and very few things are being advertised.
	>
	>         -----Original Message-----
	>         From: Raymond McKay [mailto:asterisk at raynettech.com]
	>         Sent: Thu 7/20/2006 10:15 PM
	>         To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
	>         Cc:
	>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company
	>
	>
	>
	>         I'm flying all over the world installing systems for companies ranging from
	>         5 employees - 100s of employees.  I don't think there really is a typical
	>         company per say.  Types of business span the financial services sector, to
	>         manufacturiring, to software development.  The same general need exists
	>         across all of them.  They all wish to.
	>
	>         1) Get a full featured phone system but not at the bloated prices charged by
	>         Avaya and Cisco
	>         2) Take advantage of the substational savings through VoIP providers.
	>         3) Integration of their communication technologies.
	>
	>         I think after I install a 100 systems this year, I'll make some graphs on
	>         company type and sectors and see if there are any trends, but as of now, its
	>         all over the place.
	>
	>         Regards,
	>
	>         Raymond McKay
	>         President
	>         RAYNET Technologies LLC
	>         http://www.raynettech.com
	>         (860) 693-2226 x 31
	>         Toll Free (877) 693-2226
	>         ----- Original Message -----
	>         From: "Martin Joseph" <ast at stillnewt.org>
	>         To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
	>         <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
	>         Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:39 PM
	>         Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Typical Asterisk Company
	>
	>
	>         >
	>         > On Jul 20, 2006, at 8:35 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
	>         >
	>         >> I'm wondering what types of companies are most likely to be  implementing
	>         >> Asterisk?
	>         >>
	>         >> These occur to me:
	>         >>
	>         >> CLEC's, and small rural telephone companies.
	>         >> ISP's wishing to provide voice services.
	>         >>
	>         >> Any others?
	>         >>
	>         >
	>         > Schools and fortune 500 companies.
	>         >
	>         >
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