[Asterisk-Users] Mission-Critical Deployments

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

> I disagree with PaulH on this one. Cheap IP phones makes for *cheap*
> phone, cheap sound, and cheap features. The cheapest IP phone you can
> get will come to around $60.00 USD, which multiplied by 150 makes
> $9,000.00. While a channel bank (ADIT 600) with 6 FXS cards (48 ports)
> runs around $1200.00 multiplied by 3 (3 * 48 = 144 the closest I can
> get without overbuying) makes for $3600.00, each QuadT1 card runs
> around $1,500.00 or $2,500.00 with echo can, multiplied by 2 makes
> $5,000.00 at the most, Total = $8,600.00 at the most, and you already
> have the phones, and I'm telling you that it will be cheaper. Also,
> you might have to rerun wiring for VoIP, beside the fact that for
> cheap VoIP phones you don't get POE, which also means you need outlets
> where you are going to put phones, as well as in featurewise; you can
> do much more in the DP with ananlog phones (or VoIP since it's in the
> DP), then *any* VoIP phone under $100.00 can do without the DP, and
> even a Cisco or Polycom cannot do much without some fancy programming
> from the phone itself with no DP.

The digium 24 port card will also add another option to this....

PaulH