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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just switching from Nortel to something else may not eliminate
hardware/software failures, or prevent those without experience from pushing
the enter key at the wrong time. You have to consider the two
professionals actually cost considerably more than just salary, due to taxes,
401k, benefits and after they gain knowledge of your Asterisk will they go to a
VAR to make big money? It’s a catch-22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I would start with a small pilot of anything (Nortel VoIP, Cisco
VoIP, Asterisk) and use it to build your knowledge/experience and then make an
informed decision versus a rush decision based upon how last week went with the
legacy equipment. You might find you need to plan for PoE long term, or
have network issues, etc, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Yehavi
Bourvine<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 21, 2008 6:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] Large Asterisk installarions (~10,000
extensions), preferably at universities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks to everyone who replies so far!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>We have Nortel PBX'es with a support contract from one of
the local VARs (Nortel does not give direct support here). In the last two
weeks we had one of our exchanges down for three half days; one was after a
failure, and the other two were when the technician came to fix remainders of
the original problem and just did a "5 seconds restart which won't even
cut calls". Yeh, the "5 seconds" took 6-7 hours... BTW, they
still do not know what was the original problem.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>So, why won't we save the big bucks we pay them, hire two
professionals (who cost less) and support an open source code by ourselves?
This way we depend on ourselves only.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thanks, __Yehavi:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/11/21 Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy <<a
href="mailto:megahohol@gmail.com">megahohol@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/11/21 Yehavi Bourvine <<a
href="mailto:yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com" target="_blank">yehavi.bourvine@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> Our university has to upgrade soon its old Nortel
PBX's which holds around 10,000 extensions tied to 5 PBXes. Up to now we
thought about commercial solutions but now there is a window openning for open
source solution. However, I need examples to convince that this solution is
feasible, and preferably at other universities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Are there any pointers for such installations?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Thanks! __Yehavi:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Hello very interesting project you have, however asterisk is not a registry
server, i suggest that you use opensips/opense/kamalio for your registrar, from
where you dispatch to you asterisk servers, inside a good environment with a
controlled network and nice tagged voip flow you could acheve a good results. <o:p></o:p></p>
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