Fwd: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones wanted.

[brandt Milczewski]

So in order to answer the background and backbone questions here is
the system as it is. I hope this isn't too much for the list but I'll
post it in response to a few inquiries.


The current system is quite interesting.
We have an office in a town that is about 50 miles from
the ski area. The ski area is powered 100% of of generators and the
telephone access and internet access goes from the Office in town out
a private T1 to a town about 80 miles down another highway and then we
shoot a 5Mb microwave signal about 6 miles accross no mans land up to
the ski area, (that oddly enough is on it's own highway with no
utilities). From the top of the mountain I ran the signal over T1 to
the Upper Ski lodge. From there I use an HDSL bridge about 3 miles
down the hill to the lower lodge. Both lodges have a small size LAN
about 25 computers. I also run some ethernet extender over copper to a
couple other buildings and some WAP's these are all inside the
employee lodge and one of the main day lodges.

As you can see it is a very unique and quite complex system as is. But
the LAN is quite extensive and functions very well. As you can guess from
the description the weak link is the Microwave from the top of the ski area
down to the town with internet access. But that is very reliable and the
snowfall we get, which is immense, hasn't been a problem for it yet.

As for my technical background I build and admin servers and desktops
in FreeBSD, Windows, and OSX. I learned routing and networking as
needed for the job and look at this project as just more learning. And
I'm VERY excited that I found an active community to query.

Thanks again I hope that helps tell the story and background a bit more.

-brandt

On 5/27/05, Wiley Siler <wsiler at education2020.com> wrote:
> OK.  Here are some pointers....
>
> Be sure to read up here...
> www.voip-info.org
>
> Lots of info and very specific to SIP, Asterisk, etc, etc...
> Also, with SIP, firewalls become an issue.  Check out the SIP stuff at
> above URL.
>
> Next, you will need to make sure you have some redundancy for your
> Asterisk box.
> Good news is that you can plan on using pretty simple dual processor
> boxes (Supermicro highly reccommended for compat)
>
> Next, how do you intend to connect to the PSTN?
>
> Just so you know, this is going to be a HUGE project form the sounds of
> it...
> I have a friend who owns a company in Denver that provides a hosted PBX
> solution if you are interested.
> They provide the Polycom IP500 phones with the accounts.
> www.unitybn.com  Ask for Greg Mennard and reference me...
> Have to throw that bone out there...
>
> What is your technical background?
>
> Thanks,
> Wiley
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brandt Milczewski [mailto:motobrandtlists at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:45 AM
> To: Wiley Siler
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones
> wanted.
>
> hehe I hear this.. Fiber doesn't exist currently but is part of phase
> one infrastructure buildup. The current old phone system has been
> limping along for the last couple of years and is about ready to give up
> the ghost. It is off for the summer and the guy who runs it gives no
> guarantees that it will start up again. It's my job to come up with
> alternatives.
>
>
> On 5/27/05, Wiley Siler <wsiler at education2020.com> wrote:
> > I thought he meant that as well but I hope that what will occur is
> > that there is DSL somewhere already that can be utilized.
> > That conflicts with the 'old town PBX' scenario as well though.
> >
> > So, assuming there is DSL already, that even makes you wonder why
> > bother if a phone line already exists and local calling is free?
> >
> > I think we need more details on this one.
> >
> > W
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Colin
> > Anderson
> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:18 AM
> > To: 'brandt Milczewski'; 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
>
> > Discussion'
> > Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100
> > phones wanted.
> >
> > >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within about 4
> > >miles of each other.
> >
> > Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to
> > backhaul Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more
>
> > than 100 metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred
> > metres or so isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or
> something like that.
> > What is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations
>
> > together?
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