[asterisk-biz] case study on switching to Asterisk

[Byron Pile]

Yes, I think you've pointed out a fairly big inconsistency in how I was going to structure my report. I was hoping to leverage the fact that licensing fees and such wouldn't be a problem with Asterisk, as all the support could be done in house (and at the same time mention the benefits of being able to add your own features and fix bugs with full source access). However, if the small business has these people hanging around, what are they doing when using the turnkey solution provided by the telecom? And hiring new people on to support asterisk isn't a case study I want to tackle.Thanks for the response...kind of :) now I have more to think about.> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:23:10 -0400> From: ast2005 at 9ux.com> To: asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] case study on switching to Asterisk> > You heard your economics professor always talking about "Acme Widgets> Corporation" so you're going to get our help and then sell them a new> phone system.> > Are you comparing legacy against turnkey asterisk-based systems? That> means setup, repair and support can be included by the vendor.> > Unless the company has an engineering department, just get proposals and> pick one.> > Byron Pile wrote:> > > I thought the biz list was most appropriate for this. Hope I'm not wrong!> >> > I'm trying to write a term paper on adopting an open source solution> > over a commercial solution and comparing the cost. Specifically if a> > legacy system is in use already,  when will the initial investment of> > hardware for an asterisk based system  pay off against the licensing> > fees of a proprietary system. After reading a good chunk of the free> > Asterisk book "Asterisk:The Future of Telephony" I think that Asterisk> > is an excellent topic for the paper. > >> > I'm new to telephony stuff so bear with me if my questions are a bit> > dumb, I've tried to do quite a bit of research and reading before> > posting to the mail lists.  So my idea was to use the fake company> > "whatever" and they have 15 telephones and are currently using a > > Norstar ICS with 4 incoming lines and 15 internal lines and I would> > like to switch this over to an asterisk based system.> >> > The reason for choosing the Norstar as this is a turnkey solution> > provided by a large local telecom so I will be able to get some> > pricing information for them fairly easily and I think it does what a> > 15 telephone small office might need...I'm open to a better suggestion> > if the Norstar is a poor choice.> >> > My quick questions are...is it possible that the handsets being used> > with a Norstar could be converted and used with the Asterisk system?> > (a bit of asset recovery)> >> > A system consisting of a suitable linux server running Asterisk and a> > Digium TDM2441B PCI Card 16FXS / 4FXO  would be a suitable replacement> > and could deliver the same performance/functions as the Norstar system?> >> > I'm going to try and be as thorough as possible in assessing the costs> > in switching to this system. The most obvious being some new hardware,> > but also, downtime, training, support costs, contract penalties (if> > there are any) etc....But this is a term paper and a highly> > hypothetical situation. And I know my questions are a bit general, but> > the paper will probably be kept quite general. I hope I can learn more> > about this cool app!> > > _______________________________________________> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --> > asterisk-biz mailing list> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
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