[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Users

[Aaron Daniel]

I do know what you're saying about the need to know who all uses Asterisk 
is important.  It may not be a bad idea to get a definitive list together 
at some point in the future so that anyone that's trying to get approval 
can sit down and show a list of successful deployments.  Guess in time 
this may happen :)

I can't really say for sure what the City of Baytown uses.  I know the 
city of Hunstville uses CCM for their phones, which is kinda amusing since 
most of their buildings are connected over wireless, making phone calls a 
pain.

On campus, we already have about 1300 Cisco's deployed on a CCM, so those 
are going to be a quick shot over to Asterisk since provisioning from one 
to the other is fairly simple.  The rest of the phones, I think we decided 
we're going to drop Cisco 7940's into dorms since they're simple, they 
don't need much, and we know they work for what we need them to do.  Right 
now I'm in the midst of research phones for the rest of campus, Polycom 
has impressed me so far, so I'm hoping to be able to push that for campus.

Aaron

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:

> I'm sure the question about who uses Asterisk comes up a lot, but to me,
> that's something important to help the adoption of Asterisk.  It's nice to
> see others that are using it.  It always helps when you are presenting it to
> clients if you can let them know who else uses it.  And, Aaron, to me,
> seeing as I'm from Texas, the fact that SHSU is using it means a lot, and
> this will mean a lot to my clients as well.  I was recently in a meeting at
> the City of Baytown and saw that they use Cisco phones.  I'm not sure if
> they are using Cisco Call Manager or not.
>
> And Aaron, thanks for the info.  I can understand the cost factor.  What
> phones are you switching to?
>
> Thanks!
> Lacy
>
>
>
> On 3/23/06, Aaron Daniel <amdtech at shsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The 1300 phones we're moving over in the next two months are being moved
>> off of cisco.  The reason we're moving them over is a) cost and b)
>> security.  From the cost perspective, we're paying a yearly license fee
>> for the servers themselves, as well as a per phone license for both the
>> connection to the call manager and the voicemail.  Also, with the cisco
>> system, we've had to isolate the entire voice network since cisco only
>> allows "approved" windows updates on their system.  With Asterisk, TCO is
>> much lower, the only yearly price they have to pay is the one that goes in
>> my pocket, and no licensing fees per phone. Win/Win if you ask me :)
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
>>
>>> Just out of curiosity what was the reasons for migrating off of
>> Cisco?  This
>>> is interesting since I've run across people who swear by Cisco, but the
>>> costs involved are just too unreasonable for me.
>>>
>>> On 3/23/06, Gary Richardson <gary.richardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently 1 PRI with 25 phones. We'll be 2 PRI's and over 100
>>>> phones by mid summer. We're currently 5 DID's, but I'm pretty sure
>>>> we'll be around 50 when were done.
>>>>
>>>> We're currently migrating off of a cisco call manager. I recommend
>>>> going slow with your transition -- do a chunk of phones, wait a week
>>>> or two before doing more. Asterisk excels at interoping with other
>>>> systems; take advantage of this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> On 3/22/06, QUICK, RANDY <RQUICK at thcs.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you guys and girls give me some examples of companies using
>> Asterisk
>>>> and
>>>>> how many DIDs you have.  I have built a small system and tested it
>> with
>>>>> AASTRA 480i's and all is working perfectly.  I go in front of my
>>>> Management
>>>>> Board tomorrow to demo the app and show them it is a viable
>>>> solution.  We
>>>>> are a medical facility with 12 facilities and a total of 1700
>>>> phones.  Any
>>>>> info you have would be a huge help when they ask who else is using it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy Quick
>>>>> Communications Technician II
>>>>> Texoma Healthcare Systems
>>>>> 903.416.4398
>>>>> rquick at thcs.org
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>> Sam Houston State University
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Aaron Daniel
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Sam Houston State University
amdtech at shsu.edu
(936) 294-4198