[asterisk-users] Is this failed Asterisk setup typical?

[Zeeshan Zakaria]

This is a typical scenario with so many companies who fail to recognize that
they need to take asterisk deployment seriously. I have seen so many of
these companies since 2004, since when I am in this industry. Many of them
don't want to spend money on right hardware, bandwidth and or the right
consultant.

Zeeshan A Zakaria

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On 2010-06-03 9:41 AM, "Peder" <peder at networkoblivion.com> wrote:

Silly.  My guess is that someone that doesn't know anything about phones
decided to install it and failed.  Lots of erroneous statements:

" Asterisk because it required a custom-built server" - Nope.  You can
pretty much use any old server or really even a desktop machine for an
install this small.

" Bandwidth maxed out" - Nope.  Hosted would use way more bandwidth than a
local * box.  Hosted requires all calls, internal, voicemail, local, LD, etc
to all traverse the Internet connection.  A local * box would mean only
local or LD would go out that way, so internal, voicemail would never hit
the Internet.

" DID, never worked" - Not sure what their issue is, but this is the first
thing I setup when I started with * in the pre 1.0 days and it just worked
and that was the first IP telephony experience I ever had.

They probably thought they were going to save lots of money by going the
cheap route and not getting any external help and it didn't work that way.
$500-$1000 of outside consulting from someone that knows * probably would
have fixed all of their issues.




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