<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michelle Dupuis</b> <<a href="mailto:support@ocg.ca">support@ocg.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is going into an emergency response facility...where they currently<br>have a Nortel Option 61 (I think). They want to slowly phase into VoIP.<br>They will need 1000 phone set capacity (assuming full migration).</blockquote>
<div><br>This can be done, and I am a proponent of Asterisk. But I don't think I would recommend it in this situation. Frankly, having a big company like Nortel to blame if/when downtime occurs would be worth the money difference to me!
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">My fear of connecting their PBX directly to the PC (PCI card) is the<br>potential for a PC crash. If that somehow takes down their PBX there will
<br>be hell to pay. (If it were just a regular office environment it would be<br>ok).</blockquote><div><br><br>Most media gateways will not work if/when the SIP server (i.e. Asterisk or SER) goes down. Now, some SIP phones can register to multiple hosts, etc, but I'd still push towards a COTS system in this case.
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