[Asterisk-biz] Case studies for Asterisk Voicemail

[Race Vanderdecken]

Take my advice and use a central message server with network storage and
have a cold standby. Trying to keep the messages synced between the
remotes will kill you. You can run voip back to it from any of your POPS
from the PBX's.

When a user visits another location and tries to get their messages the
local server will not understand their logins. Then the user will need
to have an account jumble to get his messages. It is much easier to get
everyone back to a central message service.

You should also ask others about mass email storage systems, same
problem different media.

Race "the tyrant" Vanderdecken
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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Alistair
Cunningham
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:28 AM
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and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-biz] Case studies for Asterisk Voicemail

I'm planning an Asterisk Voicemail system of around 3000 users spread 
across several sites, each site connected by a fast network to a central

site. We're considering 2 models:

- Central Voicemail with VoIP calls from remote sites (easier to 
administer the system(s)).

- Voicemail server at each site with shared database and NFS server at 
the central site (easier to connect to the existing PBXs for MWI, etc).

The customer would like some case studies of people who've done this 
before, even if it's just "Yes, we've done it and are happy with the 
results". Now, I've implemented systems of this size with IBM  Websphere

Voice Response, but not with Asterisk, so don't have case studies to 
offer, despite being pretty confident it will work.

Does anyone have a production Asterisk Voicemail system in this range 
using either of these models and would be willing to put their hand up 
and say "Yes, we're pleased with our system"?

-- 
Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/
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