[Asterisk-biz] Re: Asterisk-Biz Digest, Vol 6, Issue 34
Mark Woodhead
mark at bacchus.com.au
Fri Jan 14 18:58:45 MST 2005
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> 1. Re: Enterprise market (Patrick)
> 2. Radius on * (Tenorio, Leandro)
> 3. (Fwd) DID in Nanaimo - 250 (Rehan Ahmed)
> 4. mexico city - Mexico (Rehan Ahmed)
> 5. Re: Enterprise market (Ron Arts)
> 6. RE: Enterprise market (Michael at Matraex.com)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:08:50 +0100
>From: Patrick <asterisk at puzzled.xs4all.nl>
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Enterprise market
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Message-ID: <1105726130.18758.149.camel at guru.puzzled.xs4all.nl>
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>On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:28 +0100, Olivier Krief wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>As a new reader of this mailing list, I feel that Asterisk is mostly
>>used by IP Telephony Service Providers to serve consumer or business
>>markets.
>>
>>Do you have proven and successfully experience using Asterisk as an
>>Entreprise PBX ?
>>What are the main strengths and weaknesses of this software compared
>>to commercial ones (from Alcatel, Nortel, Cisco) ?
>>
>>
>
>Welcome Olivier. Whatever you are going to do give Asterisk a shot. It
>is definitely worth the try if only to have a cool PBX at home. Let me
>throw in my ideas:
>
>Advantages:
>* way cheaper than Alcatel, Nortel, Cisco
>* way more flexible
>* way more features. It can do pretty much anything you want it to do.
> If it doesn't then post a bounty or hire someone from the community to
> code it for you (releasing it back to the community is most
> appreciated)
>* way more scalable
>* very stable (try keeping Cisco's NT4 box..er..CallManager in the air
> for a decent time (ching, reboot!)
>* service contracts/support readily available
>* runs on common of the shelf (quality) hardware (COTS)
>* interface cards available from different sources
>* compatible with many phones
>* ready-made end-user solutions available
>* dedicated, enthousiastic community willing to help
>* from what I can see Digium is 120% committed to evolve Asterisk into
> a major disruptive technology that customers will benefit from. How
> many commercial solutions do you know where the lead developer commits
> code to cvs from a plane: http://www.sineapps.com/news.php?rssid=456
>
>Downside:
>* learning curve - negated by the availability of skilled consultants
> who will deliver anything you want
>* feature difference between the stable 1.0.3/1.0.4 release and HEAD
> is significant. Imho Asterisk could use a bit more "release often"
>* it's Open Source and runs on Linux, FreeBSD etc. Your bosses may not
> like or understand that (no one ever got fired for buying Cisco,
> Microsoft, IBM etc.). It's all in the way you present it...
>
>If you have any more questions also join #asterisk on irc.freenode.net.
>
>Regards,
>Patrick
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:31:16 -0300
>From: "Tenorio, Leandro" <LTenorio at intelaction.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Radius on *
>To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>, "Asterisk Users Mailing List -
> Non-Commercial Discussion" <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Message-ID:
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>
>
>I'm currently trying to use a Radius server for acct and auth, cause
>much of our systems are using it.
>Anyone has an asterisk server working with Radius Auth and Acct?
>
>Tkx, LTenorio
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:39:28 -0600
>From: "Rehan Ahmed" <rehan1 at rehan.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-biz] (Fwd) DID in Nanaimo - 250
>To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Message-ID: <41E7D9A0.13315.7C84E7E at localhost>
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>
>
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>From: Rehan Ahmed <rehan1 at rehan.com>
>To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Subject: DID in Nanaimo - 250
>Send reply to: rehan1 at rehan.com
>Date sent: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:10:56 -0600
>
>Dear all,
>
>does any one have nanaimo -250 did available, if yes, prices
>
>rehan
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:41:36 -0600
>From: "Rehan Ahmed" <rehan1 at rehan.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-biz] mexico city - Mexico
>To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
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>Dear All,
>
>Any one have have did's from mexico city, Mexico.
>
>Please let me know your pricing.
>
>Rehan
>
>Super Technologies Inc., Pensacola, Florida
>http://www.supertec.com - Technologies from tomorrow, TODAY!
>http://www.VirtualPhoneLine.com - Get A US, UK, EU Number, Forward it to any
>number in the world instantly, Record your calls, Look who is calling you. Try it,
>you will love it.
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>http://www.MySuperPhone.com - The NEXT Generation of Telephone.
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>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>Message: 5
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:02:35 +0100
>From: Ron Arts <ron.arts at neonova.nl>
>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Enterprise market
>To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>Message-ID: <41E84F8B.8070902 at neonova.nl>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Patrick wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 09:28 +0100, Olivier Krief wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>As a new reader of this mailing list, I feel that Asterisk is mostly
>>>used by IP Telephony Service Providers to serve consumer or business
>>>markets.
>>>
>>>Do you have proven and successfully experience using Asterisk as an
>>>Entreprise PBX ?
>>>What are the main strengths and weaknesses of this software compared
>>>to commercial ones (from Alcatel, Nortel, Cisco) ?
>>>
>>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Our company is marketing exactly such a product. It's
>called the Astium:
>
>www.neonova.nl
>
>(I'm sorry the site's in dutch, we're currently working
>on an English version, ETA two weeks).
>
>Main strengths:
>- opensource
>- versatile
>- pretty cheap compared to you-know-who
>- service contracts/support available
>- extensive manuals (english)
>- phone provisioning built-in (currently supports
> grandstream, SNOM, Cisco, Polycom, and soft-phones)
>- multi-tenanting
>- multi-language (prompts too)
>- totally web based config, so can be hosted, and you
> don't need a consultant for every turn you make.
>
>Main weaknesses
>- not a big brand
>- our version is currently focused on SME only
>- opensource/linux
>- suboptimal windows integration.
>
>Regards,
>Ron Arts
>
>
>
>>Welcome Olivier. Whatever you are going to do give Asterisk a shot. It
>>is definitely worth the try if only to have a cool PBX at home. Let me
>>throw in my ideas:
>>
>>Advantages:
>>* way cheaper than Alcatel, Nortel, Cisco
>>* way more flexible
>>* way more features. It can do pretty much anything you want it to do.
>> If it doesn't then post a bounty or hire someone from the community to
>> code it for you (releasing it back to the community is most
>> appreciated)
>>* way more scalable
>>* very stable (try keeping Cisco's NT4 box..er..CallManager in the air
>> for a decent time (ching, reboot!)
>>* service contracts/support readily available
>>* runs on common of the shelf (quality) hardware (COTS)
>>* interface cards available from different sources
>>* compatible with many phones
>>* ready-made end-user solutions available
>>* dedicated, enthousiastic community willing to help
>>* from what I can see Digium is 120% committed to evolve Asterisk into
>> a major disruptive technology that customers will benefit from. How
>> many commercial solutions do you know where the lead developer commits
>> code to cvs from a plane: http://www.sineapps.com/news.php?rssid=456
>>
>>Downside:
>>* learning curve - negated by the availability of skilled consultants
>> who will deliver anything you want
>>* feature difference between the stable 1.0.3/1.0.4 release and HEAD
>> is significant. Imho Asterisk could use a bit more "release often"
>>* it's Open Source and runs on Linux, FreeBSD etc. Your bosses may not
>> like or understand that (no one ever got fired for buying Cisco,
>> Microsoft, IBM etc.). It's all in the way you present it...
>>
>>If you have any more questions also join #asterisk on irc.freenode.net.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Patrick
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