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

[Tim Booth]

shadowym wrote:
> If you need to ask the price you can't afford it.  I'm sure their stuff is
> nice but Enterprise class equipment and pricing is just that. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Booth [mailto:tbooth at visioncom.us] 
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:27 AM
> To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?
>
> Brett wrote:
>   
>> 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 
>> <mailto: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
>>     ron at wellsted.org.uk <mailto:ron at wellsted.org.uk>
>>     http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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> how the pricing?
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_*If you need to ask the price you can't afford it. *_  Hey smart guy it was a general questions...I own 2 telecom businesses and I can afford it. Do yourself a favor and think before you type.