[Asterisk-Users] 12 seat call centre with Asterisk, VoIP only, UK - possible?

[Steve Kennedy]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:31:50PM +0100, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> Mike Dent wrote:
> >I guess one big question is which type of circuit to use, ADSL in the
> >UK is only 256kbs upstream,
> >some providers do bonding but I'm not sure its supported fully by BT :(
> >The other option is SDSL which is not too cheap!
> SDSL is dirt cheap.  1MB SDSL is only £275/month.. you're probably 
> looking at 4 times that for a 1MB leased line.

SDSl isn't "dirt cheap", in central london a leased line is considerably
cheaper (see Demon Internet pricing - I used to work for them, but not
anymore). In fact LES pricing can be comprable.

> A £15/month ADSL line is just not going to cut it for a business.  256k 
> is a going to support about 3 lines of ulaw maximum, and there is *no* 
> SLA on DSL - if it goes down for a week you're hosed, and so probably is 
> your business.

256Kb/s contended at 20:1 for business ADSL and 50:1 for consumer.

> Talk to BT about getting an ISDN30 line put in... you'll get some sort 
> of guaranteed quality and it'll be much better than a pure SIP solution.

Talk to anyone APART from BT, their pricing is much more than OLOs etc.


Steve

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