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

[Dean Collins]

You might also want to check out www.exinda.com <http://www.exinda.com/>
does the same thing.

 

 

Cheers,

 

Dean

 

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From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brett
Sent: Friday, 3 November 2006 12:21 PM
To: ron at wellsted.org.uk; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?

 

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.

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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
N 52.567623 , W 2.137621 Linux Counter No. 202120
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