[Asterisk-Users] Minimum budget question ...

[Stefano Corsi]

> Minimum budget usually screws you for future expandability. If you buy a
> 3 cylinder car for less than a full size car you can't go towing a
> moving trailer.

It's not for my personal use: I'm trying to tailor some commercial offer for 
differents kind of customers. So I need to find the competitive advantage (if 
there is one... but I'm pretty sure of this...) not only in terms of 
functionalities and versatility, but also in terms of costs, in respect to 
traditional PBX solutions.

> Of course if you have 11 phones, you probably have nearing 6-8 lines and
> need to start thinking of when you will need to switch to T1 from the
> Telco to cut the cost of all those analog circuits and to get the added
> benefit of the DIDs and other T1 call features. So you would then be
> looking at either adding another $500 T100P card, or you could have went
> ahead and bought the $1500 card in the beginning and have enough ports
> and channels in your machine to take you past where your company will
> expand in the next couple of years.

Thank you! Your answer was very useful for me!

Stefano