[Asterisk-Users] Anyone using * in a live production environment?

[Ariel Batista]

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Gavin Hamill <gdh at acentral.co.uk>
>Hullo again, all :)
>
>If you're using * to run telephony in a real business environment, can I
>trouble you to write a short paragraph about the setup, and how you've
>found the migration / daily use?
>
>Thank you :)
>
>Gavin.
>

Ok here is a short paragraph on our use of Asterisk in the real world.

1 inbound PRI ISDN 23/24 channel - Local phone service with 60 DID numbers. 1 Long Distance T1 line for inbound 800 numbers and all outbound long distance calls.
running on P4 1.7G 512mg 20 gig HDD with 2 T400P boards. Ethernet on MB Intel 845G board. 
Hardware:
4 Adtran 750 with 24 FXS channels each.
1 Adtran 600 with 4 FX0 and 12 FXS ports.
1 ZetaFax server with US robotics modem.
1 HP Fax as backup
4 Inbound RAS lines for users
2 outbound RAS modems for dial out support lines.
40 452 phones (Really bad choice for phones)
10 390 phones (Again better then 452 but still bad phones)
Cisco ATA 186 (nice works great)
Cisco 7960 (Nice phone but worst phone to setup and maintain)
4 SIP phones X-Ten Lite with Telex USB connection to PC (Works great)

Overall system is working with Support queues(AGI login user accounts) and meeting rooms.  Voicemail system is not very good need some way to configure the boxes. They really need to redo this application for more standard settings. We have MOH working without any problems.   Major down is no Graphical interface.  No actual working manager. Got to get them to fix the Zombie lines. (I feel it's mainly do to our 390 and 452 phones.

It works needs some fine tuning but it works.  I have nothing good to say about the Aastra phones 390 or the 452.  They are not really good for heavy use like we need!  The Cisco 7960 is nice to look at but in the real world it's hard to get working and setup. If you don't know about Linux or are able to use scripts it's a real mess to keep up! This is where it's being held back as a real world player! 

This is the basic setup. Next step is outside offices connection.