[asterisk-users] Which VoIP router and switch to use for medium size business

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:

> On 3/10/07, Henry Cobb <henry.cobb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So get a second broadband connection and run only voice on it.
>
> Has anyone tried this?

Intersting idea. One of the VoIP providers in the UK (where I am) 
recomends this for small businesses, but I fear that with the standard 
offering you're still at the 50:1 or 20:1 contention ratios that BT 
provide the ADSL wholesalers. (And it's £107 for a new phone line install, 
and £12 a month, and that puts some companies off - until you show them 
how much an ISDN30 costs...) One company is claiming they bypass the 
Internet side of it all entirely and can give you dedicated ADSL lines 
that go right into their (MPLS) network - they call it VxDSL, but I'm not 
100% sure how they're doing this...

> I have been thinking about this.  We're getting so much spam that I
> think it's taking up too much of our bandwidth.  I'm wondering how
> much bandwidth all the script kiddies take up scanning things as well.

On my servers and systems I look after, spam email is many many more times 
the volume than the port-scanners. P2P file-sharing is more of a concern 
to me than port scanning ...

Gordon