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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How redundant is it? I'm still waiting to
hear from them directly, but is it completely 1 + 1 redundant? It might
protect against Asterisk failures, but does it then become a single point of
failure?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>----<BR>Mike Hammett<BR>Intelligent Computing Solutions<BR><A
href="http://www.ics-il.com">http://www.ics-il.com</A></DIV>
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<A title=ranchlist@gmail.com href="mailto:ranchlist@gmail.com">Brett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ron@wellsted.org.uk
href="mailto:ron@wellsted.org.uk">ron@wellsted.org.uk</A> ; <A
title=asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">Commercial and Business-Oriented
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 03, 2006 11:21
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [asterisk-biz] How Realistic
is Hosted VoIP for SMBs?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>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. <BR><BR>There ya go, one box
fixes all.<BR><BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 10/30/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Ron
Wellsted</B> <<A
href="mailto:ron@wellsted.org.uk">ron@wellsted.org.uk</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<BR>Hash: SHA1<BR><BR>shadowym wrote:<BR>> If you
don't have full control of the network from end to end (or have <BR>>
someone do that for you), it will never be a reliable solution in my
humble<BR>> opinion. People are getting away with it in some
cases but the bottom line<BR>> is they cannot guarantee quality of
service. <BR>><BR><BR>I must agree with this having seen a 5 phone office
with a hosted system<BR>over ADSL. The system was never reliable
and they eventually scrapped<BR>it and came to us. As we are in
the same building, I setup their phones <BR>on to asterisk with their own
contexts, etc. and replaced their simple<BR>switch with a Linksys 224P (poe
+ layer3 managed). Inbound calls are<BR>presented on a ISDN BRI
(ZapHFC), outbound via VoIP. The only comment <BR>has been about
the occasional slight echo.<BR><BR>- --<BR>Ron Wellsted<BR><A
href="mailto:ron@wellsted.org.uk">ron@wellsted.org.uk</A> <A
href="http://www.wellsted.org.uk">http://www.wellsted.org.uk</A><BR>N
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