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So here's my question of the day ! I need to make a decision on whether or not to go to a voip solution or configure an existing pbx (norstar) that my company has available. We are a small startup. I'm wanting a solution that will support up to about 200 people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about 30 concurrent phone calls and good voice quality. Right now I have an asterisk deployment with about 15 people on it. We have sipura 841 phones. The biggest issue currently is voice quality. lot of complaints there. I have a dell 650 poweredge (single processory system), with a digium tdm400 card and 4 analog lines plugged into it.<BR>
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So here are my questions:<BR>
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* Is asterisk a good solution for my company ? or should I just install the traditional pbx and look to move to asterisk in a couple of years ? (I personally would prefer asterisk cuz I'm a unix person not a phone person so from a manageability perspective i would love this )<BR>
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* If I were to go to an asterisk solution to support about 200 people with the requirements above what hardware platform would you recommend ? I'm guessing I'd need a PRI line and a different digium card? Also would a 1cpu poweredge dell be enough ? or would that have to be upgraded too ? <BR>
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If anyone is running an environment similar to this that can provide help I would really appreciate this. I'm having a hard time making this decision and would love to hear anybody's experience in a real time environment.<BR>
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Thanks again this list ROCKS!<BR>
Nora Lavelle<BR>
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