[asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?

[Brett]

You guys need to look into the Ranch Networks solution.  With a Hosted PBX,
you can put the Asterisk box at you location.  Then we take a Ranch Networks
box and put it at the customers site.  the Ranch Networks box does all the
NAT traversal, qos, firewall, etc. plus it will bring the media locally so
you don't have to go over the internet for simple branch to branch calls.
Plus, the ranch Networks box provides high availability or clustering if you
need that.

There ya go, one box fixes all.



On 10/30/06, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk> wrote:
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> shadowym wrote:
> > If you don't have full control of the network from end to end (or have
> > someone do that for you), it will never be a reliable solution in my
> humble
> > opinion.  People are getting away with it in some cases but the bottom
> line
> > is they cannot guarantee quality of service.
> >
>
> I must agree with this having seen a 5 phone office with a hosted system
> over ADSL.  The system was never reliable and they eventually scrapped
> it and came to us.  As we are in the same building, I setup their phones
> on to asterisk with their own contexts, etc. and replaced their simple
> switch with a Linksys 224P (poe + layer3 managed).  Inbound calls are
> presented on a ISDN BRI (ZapHFC), outbound via VoIP.  The only comment
> has been about the occasional slight echo.
>
> - --
> Ron Wellsted
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